aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/bfd
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJoel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>2004-09-13 03:51:22 +0000
committerJoel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>2004-09-13 03:51:22 +0000
commit94ea025abda2c91f5e53b7e949ac3628ba2081cd (patch)
tree682b6b4989e021a0cb23a707bb2190e34eb0b6d4 /bfd
parent2159ac21e244ff361e244b0fa03219b96dbc4673 (diff)
downloadgdb-94ea025abda2c91f5e53b7e949ac3628ba2081cd.zip
gdb-94ea025abda2c91f5e53b7e949ac3628ba2081cd.tar.gz
gdb-94ea025abda2c91f5e53b7e949ac3628ba2081cd.tar.bz2
* hpux-core.c (thread_section_p): New function.
(hpux_core_core_file_p): Fix computation of offset in call to bfd_seek. Create a ".reg" section from an arbitrary ".reg/<id>" section if none was created after having read all sections.
Diffstat (limited to 'bfd')
-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog8
-rw-r--r--bfd/hpux-core.c36
2 files changed, 43 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 8a8e991..8ef66c6 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2004-09-10 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
+
+ * hpux-core.c (thread_section_p): New function.
+ (hpux_core_core_file_p): Fix computation of offset in call
+ to bfd_seek. Create a ".reg" section from an arbitrary
+ ".reg/<id>" section if none was created after having read
+ all sections.
+
2004-09-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
* acinclude.m4: Fix spelling of ACX_NONCANONICAL_*.
diff --git a/bfd/hpux-core.c b/bfd/hpux-core.c
index 32b4eb4..347de21 100644
--- a/bfd/hpux-core.c
+++ b/bfd/hpux-core.c
@@ -145,6 +145,17 @@ make_bfd_asection (abfd, name, flags, size, vma, alignment_power)
return asect;
}
+/* Return true if the given core file section corresponds to a thread,
+ based on its name. */
+
+static int
+thread_section_p (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
+ asection *sect,
+ void *obj ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
+{
+ return (strncmp (bfd_section_name (abfd, sect), ".reg/", 5) == 0);
+}
+
/* this function builds a bfd target if the file is a corefile.
It returns null or 0 if it finds out thaat it is not a core file.
The way it checks this is by looking for allowed 'type' field values.
@@ -207,7 +218,7 @@ hpux_core_core_file_p (abfd)
/* However, we also want to create those sections with the
file positioned at the start of the record, it seems. */
- if (bfd_seek (abfd, (file_ptr) -core_header.len, SEEK_CUR) != 0)
+ if (bfd_seek (abfd, -((file_ptr) core_header.len), SEEK_CUR) != 0)
break;
#if defined(PROC_INFO_HAS_THREAD_ID)
@@ -301,6 +312,29 @@ hpux_core_core_file_p (abfd)
/* OK, we believe you. You're a core file (sure, sure). */
+ /* On HP/UX, we sometimes encounter core files where none of the threads
+ was found to be the running thread (ie the signal was set to -1 for
+ all threads). This happens when the program was aborted externally
+ via a TT_CORE ttrace system call. In that case, we just pick one
+ thread at random to be the active thread. */
+ if (core_kernel_thread_id (abfd) != 0
+ && bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, ".reg") == NULL)
+ {
+ asection *asect = bfd_sections_find_if (abfd, thread_section_p, NULL);
+ asection *reg_sect;
+
+ if (asect != NULL)
+ {
+ reg_sect = make_bfd_asection (abfd, ".reg", asect->flags,
+ asect->size, asect->vma,
+ asect->alignment_power);
+ if (reg_sect == NULL)
+ goto fail;
+
+ reg_sect->filepos = asect->filepos;
+ }
+ }
+
/* Were there sections of unknown type? If so, yet there were
at least some complete sections of known type, then, issue
a warning. Possibly the core file was generated on a version