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* Re: gdb/2171: No backtrace generated on amd64 [SOLVED]
@ 2006-09-18 23:38 Joe Hansche
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From: Joe Hansche @ 2006-09-18 23:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
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From: "Joe Hansche" <madcoder@gmail.com>
To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb/2171: No backtrace generated on amd64 [SOLVED]
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:32:36 -0600
Yep, that was it, thanks! Turns out gentoo included those pie patches
up through version 6.3, then for some reason, the patches are no
longer included. I downgraded gdb to 6.3, and it works fine.
Thanks again for all your help.
Joe
On 9/18/06, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 06:21:40AM -0600, Joe Hansche wrote:
> > I've upgraded to kernel version 2.6.17, with the same results (after
> > recompiling both gdb and php). I tried looking through the kernel
> > .config to see what might cause something like this. The only thing I
> > ended up changing, aside from the defaults in the new kernel, was
> > changing the memory model from Discontiguous to Sparse.
> >
> > Any more ideas? Or since you are saying it looks like a kernel
> > problem, where should I look for more information on this?
>
> drow@caradoc:~/nevyn-home/z% readelf -l php | head
>
> Elf file type is DYN (Shared object file)
>
> There we go. This is PIE, a position independent executable. The FSF
> GDB does not support PIE.
>
> I believe Red Hat ships some unsubmitted patches for this issue; they
> were mentioned on the gdb mailing list a few weeks ago.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery
>
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