From 5c0d192f85f9c5f6897e3a721fe4ff5643c7ce27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kratochvil Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:07:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] gdb/ * solib-svr4.c (LM_ADDR_CHECK): New comment on PPC-aware condition. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ gdb/solib-svr4.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index c26c022527..0cd8fd7b5e 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2010-02-11 Jan Kratochvil + Ulrich Weigand + + * solib-svr4.c (LM_ADDR_CHECK): New comment on PPC-aware condition. + 2010-02-11 Pedro Alves * ax-gdb.c (gen_exp_binop_rest) [BINOP_SUBSCRIPT]: Error out if diff --git a/gdb/solib-svr4.c b/gdb/solib-svr4.c index 2833ed140d..9d4e59edf6 100644 --- a/gdb/solib-svr4.c +++ b/gdb/solib-svr4.c @@ -217,7 +217,19 @@ LM_ADDR_CHECK (struct so_list *so, bfd *abfd) location, or anything, really. To avoid regressions, don't adjust the base offset in the latter case, although odds are that, if things really changed, debugging won't - quite work. */ + quite work. + + One could expect more the condition + ((l_addr & align) == 0 && ((l_dynaddr - dynaddr) & align) == 0) + but the one below is relaxed for PPC. The PPC kernel supports + either 4k or 64k page sizes. To be prepared for 64k pages, + PPC ELF files are built using an alignment requirement of 64k. + However, when running on a kernel supporting 4k pages, the memory + mapping of the library may not actually happen on a 64k boundary! + + (In the usual case where (l_addr & align) == 0, this check is + equivalent to the possibly expected check above.) */ + if ((l_addr & align) == ((l_dynaddr - dynaddr) & align)) { l_addr = l_dynaddr - dynaddr;