From: Aaron Merey <amerey@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: Aaron Merey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>,
lsix@lancelotsix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gdb: Add soname to build-id mapping for corefiles
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:40:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJDtP-Tx1a_RVWzEx4u5oHrZZhwBX76aJZZVMKpk_ZWmoUFWFA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJDtP-ThnxJZYXT5Tf7302nQGqHyoaDvF_DTvWbrVLb7rWkRrw@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks,
Aaron
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 4:16 PM Aaron Merey <amerey@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 9:29 AM Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:
> > If re-opening and then calling bfd_check_format sets the flags
> > correctly, then I suppose the question is just why the call in
> > build_file_mappings isn't doing that:
> >
> > if (bfd == nullptr || !bfd_check_format (bfd, bfd_object))
> >
> > Possibly the answer is that corelow passes "binary" as the target, but
> > your code does:
> >
> > Aaron> + gdb_bfd_ref_ptr abfd = gdb_bfd_open (bfd->filename, gnutarget);
> >
> > But then I wonder why "binary" is appropriate in corelow.
>
> Yes it would be much better if "bfd" was simply initialised with the proper
> fields. Corelow treats bfds in a target-agnostic manner but this shouldn't
> preclude having accurate information in "bfd".
>
> We could force "bfd" to have a format of bfd_unknown and let
> bfd_check_format figure out the correct format and fields. This is
> basically what I do in gdb_bfd_read_elf_soname. But really there
> should be a way to just initialise "bfd" with completely accurate
> contents at the time of creation. If this doesn't exist maybe now
> is the time to add it.
>
> Aaron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-26 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-10 1:47 [PATCH v4 0/3] Add debuginfod core file support Aaron Merey
2021-11-10 1:47 ` [PATCH 1/3] gdb: Add aliases for read_core_file_mappings callbacks Aaron Merey
2021-11-14 2:20 ` Simon Marchi
2021-11-17 3:39 ` Aaron Merey
2021-11-10 1:47 ` [PATCH 2/3] gdb: Add soname to build-id mapping for corefiles Aaron Merey
2021-11-14 2:36 ` Simon Marchi
2021-11-17 3:24 ` Aaron Merey
2021-11-17 14:17 ` Tom Tromey
2021-11-17 21:16 ` Aaron Merey
2022-01-26 1:40 ` Aaron Merey [this message]
2022-02-09 2:31 ` Aaron Merey
2022-02-17 16:01 ` Andrew Burgess
2021-11-10 1:47 ` [PATCH 3/3] PR gdb/27570: missing support for debuginfod in core_target::build_file_mappings Aaron Merey
2021-11-14 2:56 ` Simon Marchi
2021-11-17 3:28 ` Aaron Merey
2022-01-26 1:42 ` Aaron Merey
2022-02-09 2:31 ` Aaron Merey
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-08-12 4:24 [PATCH v3 0/3] Add debuginfod core file support Aaron Merey
2021-08-12 4:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] gdb: Add soname to build-id mapping for corefiles Aaron Merey
2021-08-15 14:51 ` Lancelot SIX
2021-08-17 13:58 ` Simon Marchi
2021-08-19 2:22 ` Aaron Merey
2021-09-29 1:12 ` Aaron Merey
2021-11-04 1:32 ` Simon Marchi
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