Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 22:40:57 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: hfwirth@ping.at, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doscmd, debugging with gdb Message-ID: <19970909224057.32440@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <199709100321.NAA07491@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Sep 09, 1997 at 01:21:30PM %2B1000 References: <199709100321.NAA07491@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Sep 09, 1997 at 01:21:30PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >The problem appears to be that gdb is unable to write to any
> >region that is of type OBJT_DEFAULT (default) in the above
> >map, even though it is marked writable. gdb doesn't have any
> >problems reading from the address, though.
> >
> >A simple test case:
> >
> > > echo 'main() {}' > test.c
> > > cc -g test.c
> > > gdb a.out
> > (gdb) b main
> > (gdb) r
> > > cat /proc/<pid>/map
> > [.. snip ..]
> > 0x8012000 0x8014000 0 2 rwx COW vnode
> > 0x8014000 0x801c000 0 8 rwx default
> > [.. snip ..]
> > (gdb) set *0x8012000 = 0
> > (gdb) set *0x8014000 = 0
> > Error accessing memory address 0x8014000: Bad address.
>
> `w' apparently means write-protected here :-). All the r-x COW vnodes
> are writable and all the rwx COW vnodes are non-writable.
No, I don't think that's it; the write to the 'rwx COW vnode' entry
succeeds, while the write to the 'rwx default' entry fails.
Also, the 'default' region in doscmd was allocated via brk(), so I'd
certainly hope that allocated memory isn't non-writeable. :-)
I neglected to mention that this was on a -current machine, BTW.
--
Jonathan
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