Re: gdb and asm/offsets.h
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:46:57PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> (Please CC me, I'm not on debian-hppa.)
>
Then why did you set Mail-Followup-To?
> GDB uses <asm/offsets.h> to find the offsets of registers in struct
> pt_regs. The rest of the contents of this header aren't a public ABI,
> but that bit is - unfortunately now it's in asm-offsets.h which is
> never exported.
>
> Where should GDB get this data? For now, I made a hopefully correct
> copy of the offsets and included it in GDB.
>
I assume gdb is fetching this with ptrace? What exactly does it need it
for? Can you point at the relevant code in cvsweb or something?
--Kyle
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