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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled
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Daniel Jacobowitz |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled |
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Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:10:32 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:56:01PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > Assuming that breakpoint locations are indeed meant to be virtual
> > addresses, GDB would have to evaluate the CS descriptor, add the CS
> > base to the EIP address and THEN check whether it knows the address.
> > But as it seems to be segment-agnostic it doesn't do that and things
> > break as a result.
>
> As Dan said, gdb knows nothing about x86 segmentation. As soon as you have
> nonzero segment bases you're pretty much on your own.
>
> If you care about fixing this I suggest you get GDB folks to agree (and
> document) how segmented memory models should work, then implement that model
> in qemu. Hacking qemu to work for your particular case with unmodified gdb
> probably "breaks" something else, so doesn't seem to improve the overall
> usefulness.
I'd recommend the even simpler hack of having qemu report a PC that
included the segment base :-)
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Fabrice Bellard, 2006/11/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2006/11/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2006/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, andrzej zaborowski, 2006/11/10
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Paul Brook, 2006/11/10
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled,
Daniel Jacobowitz <=
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2006/11/10