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Re: [patch] Fix a glitch in debugging 32-bit process with 64-bit GDB.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 08:34:08 -0500
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix a glitch in debugging 32-bit process with 64-bit GDB.
References: <20081209013252.9E1C83A6B2E@localhost> <20081209020744.GA11173@caradoc.them.org> <8ac60eac0812081842l6ac5344fw2fd57011d3dfef42@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 06:42:52PM -0800, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> That value was set here:
> 
> #0  define_symbol (valu=4294967280, string=0x2aaaabd3285c
> "ar_ptr:p(0,32)", desc=2742, type=160, objfile=0xed4070)
>     at ../../src/gdb/stabsread.c:936

I was afraid we were going to come back to the stabs reader somehow.

The bit of GDB you're patching is not at fault; either BFD or the
stabs reader is.  The right fix is to end up with a -16 in the symbol.
Something like Peter's patch, I suppose; although I thought something
else had been posted for this recently, maybe by Joel...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [patch] Fix a glitch in debugging 32-bit process with 64-bit GDB.
  - From: Joel Brobecker

References:
- [patch] Fix a glitch in debugging 32-bit process with 64-bit GDB.
  - From: Paul Pluzhnikov
- Re: [patch] Fix a glitch in debugging 32-bit process with 64-bit GDB.
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: [patch] Fix a glitch in debugging 32-bit process with 64-bit GDB.
  - From: Paul Pluzhnikov

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