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1 /* Communicate dynamic linker state to the debugger at runtime.
2 Copyright (C) 1996, 1998,2000,2002,2004,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
5 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
7 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
10 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Lesser General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
16 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
17 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
18 02111-1307 USA. */
20 #include <ldsodefs.h>
22 /* This structure communicates dl state to the debugger. The debugger
23 normally finds it via the DT_DEBUG entry in the dynamic section, but in
24 a statically-linked program there is no dynamic section for the debugger
25 to examine and it looks for this particular symbol name. */
26 struct r_debug _r_debug;
29 /* Initialize _r_debug if it has not already been done. The argument is
30 the run-time load address of the dynamic linker, to be put in
31 _r_debug.r_ldbase. Returns the address of _r_debug. */
33 struct r_debug *
34 internal_function
35 _dl_debug_initialize (ElfW(Addr) ldbase, Lmid_t ns)
37 struct r_debug *r;
39 if (ns == LM_ID_BASE)
40 r = &_r_debug;
41 else
42 r = &GL(dl_ns)[ns]._ns_debug;
44 if (r->r_brk == 0 || ldbase != 0)
46 /* Tell the debugger where to find the map of loaded objects. */
47 r->r_version = 1 /* R_DEBUG_VERSION XXX */;
48 r->r_ldbase = ldbase ?: _r_debug.r_ldbase;
49 r->r_map = GL(dl_ns)[ns]._ns_loaded;
50 r->r_brk = (ElfW(Addr)) &_dl_debug_state;
53 return r;
57 /* This function exists solely to have a breakpoint set on it by the
58 debugger. The debugger is supposed to find this function's address by
59 examining the r_brk member of struct r_debug, but GDB 4.15 in fact looks
60 for this particular symbol name in the PT_INTERP file. */
61 void
62 _dl_debug_state (void)
65 rtld_hidden_def (_dl_debug_state)