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Re: problem with fetch_link_map_offsets
- From: "Kris Warkentin" <kewarken at qnx dot com>
- To: <Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com>
- Cc: "Kevin Buettner" <kevinb at redhat dot com>, "Gdb at Sources dot Redhat dot Com" <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>, <Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:21:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: problem with fetch_link_map_offsets
- References: <200306101012.h5AAClK01881@pc960.cambridge.arm.com>
> > Yeah but....a QNX binary is just an ordinary elf binary. There are no
> > special sections or magic in there for the sniffer to catch. Hence my
> > problem. Perhaps it should be returning unknown so that another sniffer
> > (like my one liner) could get it?
> >
>
> NetBSD binaries look like ordinary ELF too, as do Linux. The only way to
> resolve this is to arange for the crt0.o file to contain some magic that
> GDB can find. Normally this is a special .note section.
>
> Can you not arrange for QNX binaries to have such a note and then add
that.
Perhaps. I'll have to talk to some of the folk here. I think it would be
really handy to be able to recognize one of our binaries. Thanks for the
suggestion.
cheers,
Kris