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From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Disabling stack access for remote targets?
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 17:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OFB96592A6.7A0A8336-ONC1257A12.005EC63F-C1257A12.005F4F7E@transmode.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120603165813.GA20143@host2.jankratochvil.net>

Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote on 2012/06/03 18:58:13:
>
> On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:42:10 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > Not quite, I don't see memeor attribute "no-access", just ro, wo, and rw.
>
> There is "set mem inaccessible-by-default" for that purpose, default "on",
> just do not definy any memory area in that range you do not want to touch.

That could work, I need to test that though.

>
>
> > Testing for sp == 0 (or sp == ~0) would be much nicer. It would automatically
> > disable/enable stack access.
>
> sp == 0 or sp == ~0 are perfectly valid stack addresses on embedded targets.

In theory yes, I think you will have a very hard time finding a system using
0 or ~0(which is odd too).
If that is still a concern one could make the address configurable.
I think this feature would be really nice to have because it adapts
dynamically without the user having to know about mem regions.

 Jocke

      reply	other threads:[~2012-06-03 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-01 14:29 Joakim Tjernlund
2012-06-03 15:16 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-06-03 16:42   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2012-06-03 16:58     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-06-03 17:21       ` Joakim Tjernlund [this message]

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