From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: "Philippe Waroquiers" <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>,
"Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas@t-8ch.de>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Remote query for structure layout
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:10:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb1cad2f-2a61-eb58-2045-118efa2583ef@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be2a7685a700764fb52630ef1efb9d976e1ca99e.camel@skynet.be>
On 2021-03-29 4:02 p.m., Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 15:42 -0400, Simon Marchi via Gdb wrote:
>> So I would lean towards a home-grown format, but it's more work to
>> ensure it is extensible if we want to include more information in the
>> replies in the future.
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to have the target sending back some (maybe limited
> and/or partial) 'standard debug info' (such as dwarf) for these types ?
>
> I have a very limited knowledge of dwarf, so no idea if it is easy
> to have 'small scale' debug info being returned by the target
> (e.g. by having the needed dwarf entries linked as binary data
> inside the target, or generated by the target).
>
> This might allow to reuse the existing GDB dwarf parser and likely
> give a flexible enough description 'language'.
It's the other way around. In the problem at hand, GDB has all the
information and it's the target who queries GDB for symbol and types.
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-29 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-28 11:06 Thomas Weißschuh
2021-03-29 16:05 ` Simon Marchi
2021-03-29 17:33 ` Thomas Weißschuh
2021-03-29 19:42 ` Simon Marchi
2021-03-29 20:02 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2021-03-29 20:10 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2021-03-29 20:20 ` Philippe Waroquiers
[not found] <mailman.6.1616932808.1485743.gdb@sourceware.org>
2021-03-30 20:35 ` Tim Newsome
2021-03-30 21:33 ` Simon Marchi
2021-03-30 21:41 ` David Blaikie
2021-03-30 21:49 ` Simon Marchi
2021-03-30 22:03 ` David Blaikie
2021-03-30 22:38 ` Simon Marchi
2021-03-30 22:44 ` David Blaikie
2021-03-31 0:16 ` Simon Marchi
2021-03-31 3:27 ` David Blaikie
2021-03-31 13:00 ` Simon Marchi
2021-04-02 22:05 ` David Blaikie
2021-04-03 19:39 ` Simon Marchi
2021-03-31 14:06 ` Tim Newsome
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