[patch] Resolve ppc64 func descriptors as .func (via .opd)

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil at redhat.com
Tue Dec 11 10:24:54 UTC 2012


On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:13:37 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> I don't think dwfl_module_addrsym () really has anything to do with the
> ppc64 ABI

That is in fact the whole question to IBM, whether it has or has not.


> since all it does is resolve an address to a symbol in a table
> we happen to have at hand (how is libdwfl specific, and it happens to be
> the function descriptor in the case of ppc64 in some cases, with the
> st_value adjusted). That symbol has a particular name that we just
> return. You might want to ask about how backtraces on ppc64 should print
> (function) names, but IMHO that is separate from the string that
> dwfl_module_addrsym () happens to return.

I do not agree with the paragraph above for the reasons already discussed
before.

But without resolving it yet I ask a different question to get more a picture
how your solution may work:

If elfutils had name -> address resolver (still without DWARF capability)
which address should be resolved for "raise"?  Should be ".raise" also
resolved?


Thanks,
Jan


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