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-rw-r--r--bfd/elf32-arc.c35
2 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 84fceea..529a3b5 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2016-08-24 Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
+
+ * elf32-arc.c (elf32_arc_grok_prstatus): New function.
+
2016-08-23 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
* elf32-arm.c (elf32_arm_count_additional_relocs): Return zero if
diff --git a/bfd/elf32-arc.c b/bfd/elf32-arc.c
index 00828be..89a2b52 100644
--- a/bfd/elf32-arc.c
+++ b/bfd/elf32-arc.c
@@ -2439,6 +2439,39 @@ elf_arc_add_symbol_hook (bfd * abfd,
return TRUE;
}
+/* GDB expects general purpose registers to be in section .reg. However Linux
+ kernel doesn't create this section and instead writes registers to NOTE
+ section. It is up to the binutils to create a pseudo-section .reg from the
+ contents of NOTE. Also BFD will read pid and signal number from NOTE. This
+ function relies on offsets inside elf_prstatus structure in Linux to be
+ stable. */
+
+static bfd_boolean
+elf32_arc_grok_prstatus (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Note *note)
+{
+ int offset;
+ size_t size;
+
+ switch (note->descsz)
+ {
+ default:
+ return FALSE;
+
+ case 236: /* sizeof (struct elf_prstatus) on Linux/arc. */
+ /* pr_cursig */
+ elf_tdata (abfd)->core->signal = bfd_get_16 (abfd, note->descdata + 12);
+ /* pr_pid */
+ elf_tdata (abfd)->core->lwpid = bfd_get_32 (abfd, note->descdata + 24);
+ /* pr_regs */
+ offset = 72;
+ size = (40 * 4); /* There are 40 registers in user_regs_struct. */
+ break;
+ }
+ /* Make a ".reg/999" section. */
+ return _bfd_elfcore_make_pseudosection (abfd, ".reg", size,
+ note->descpos + offset);
+}
+
#define TARGET_LITTLE_SYM arc_elf32_le_vec
#define TARGET_LITTLE_NAME "elf32-littlearc"
#define TARGET_BIG_SYM arc_elf32_be_vec
@@ -2484,6 +2517,8 @@ elf_arc_add_symbol_hook (bfd * abfd,
#define elf_backend_may_use_rela_p 1
#define elf_backend_default_use_rela_p 1
+#define elf_backend_grok_prstatus elf32_arc_grok_prstatus
+
#define elf_backend_default_execstack 0
#include "elf32-target.h"