On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 06:11:36PM -0500, Robbie Harwood wrote: > Daniel Kiper <dki...@net-space.pl> writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 02:22:07PM -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote: > >> From: Peter Jones <pjo...@redhat.com> > >> > >> Add a grub_dprintf() call during platform init and during module loading > >> that tells us the virtual addresses of the .text and .data sections of > >> grub-core/kernel.exec and any modules it loads. > >> > >> Specifically, it displays them in the gdb "add-symbol-file" syntax, with > >> the presumption that there's a variable $grubdir that reflects the path > >> to any such binaries. > > > > Could you tell us why this thing has to be displayed as a part of debug > > messages? Could you create a separate command which would do the same? > > I don't follow what you're suggesting. It's debug output and gdb is a > debugger. What would you have it do instead?
I cannot see any reason of displaying this kind of stuff as a part of debug messages. I think we should have a separate command, e.g. give_me_these_load_addresses ;-), in the GRUB which will produce list of commands needed to be executed in the gdb. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
