Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PING 0.14] Missing patches (mostly fixes)

[Peter Maydell]

On 9 February 2011 09:20, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
> It is strange as we have in gdb, if I remember correctly, an explicit check 
> of the size of prstatus:
>
> gdb/bfd/elf.c:
>
>    if defined (HAVE_PRSTATUS_T)
>
>    static bfd_boolean
>    elfcore_grok_prstatus (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Note *note)
> ...
>      if (note->descsz == sizeof (prstatus_t))
> ...
>
> How do you test this patch ? Do you use native gdb on ARM ? Because, for 
> m68k, cross-compiled gdb does not work (it cannot have sizeof(prstatus_t) for 
> m68k).

I dunno about m68k, but if ARM gdb behaves differently natively
versus the cross-tools version (ie hosted on x86 to target ARM)
then that sounds like a bug we in Linaro would like to know
about :-)

-- PMM