Re: Unwind information fix for the vsyscall DSO

From: Daniel Jacobowitz
Date: Sun Oct 24 2004 - 21:28:23 EST


On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 04:27:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> > When working on GDB support I found a typo. I assume the comment is
> > correct. If you step to this particular instruction and backtrace, GDB gets
> > lost.
> >
> > I haven't tested the fixed version yet, but I'm pretty confident in this
> > patch :-) Please apply.
>
> The patch looks obvious, but I'd still like to see a "yeah, I tested it
> now, and yes, gdb DTRT after the fix.."

It looks good, but it triggered a related bug in GDB and 2.6.10-rc1
locked up while I was debugging that. I'll get back to you once I can
test it.

--
Daniel Jacobowitz
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