Re: Symbol Lookup w/Avtrex gcdump Tool

["Craig A. Vanderborgh" <craigv at voxware dot com>]

David Daney wrote:

> Craig A. Vanderborgh wrote:
>
> > Hello Everyone:
> >
> > I am using David Daney's fabulous "Gcdump" tool once more, to try to 
> > track down some memory management problems in our application.
> >
> > However, I'm flummoxed by a problem that I have not ever been able to 
> > solve.  The "dump" part of the tool appears to be working correctly.  
> > But the "analysis" portion seems to be able to find names for libgcj 
> > symbols, but NO APPLICATION SYMBOL NAMES.
>
> There is a bug in the analyser.  It assumes that all objects are 
> relocated by their base address as shown from /proc/self/maps.
>
> For shared libraries this is a valid assumption for the executable it 
> is not.  The executable is already relocated.
>
> One hacky work around is to find the dump file that contains the copy 
> of /proc/self/maps and add a line to the beginning of that section 
> something like this:
>
> -------------------8<--------------------------

OH YES!!

This does the trick.. what a difference.  This is truly a huge 
improvement.  Thanks a lot, I will now go and immerse myself in these 
dumps...

Best Regards,
craig vanderborgh
voxware incorporated

> Analyze isn’t getting symbols for pvrapp (or other apps) because it is 
> incorrectly translating addresses from the “mipsel-linux-nm” output to 
> the actual address space used.
>
> Pvrapp seems to actually get loaded at 0, but analyse tries to 
> determine the actual address space used by looking at 
> “/proc/<pid>/maps” (shown below) and picking the lowest address for a 
> given module.  The first line  below I added by editing 001-dump.txt 
> by hand.  Without it, analyze thinks 400000 is the base.
>
> So, the quick way to fix the problem is to find your executable and 
> try adding a base address of 0 similar to the line in yellow below.  
> Of course, substitute the actual executable name for pvrapp.
>
>
> ---------- Begin address map ----------
> 00000000-00000001 r-xp 00000000 03:01 82024      /avtrex/bin/pvrapp
> 00400000-00b96000 r-xp 00000000 03:01 82024      /avtrex/bin/pvrapp
> 00bd5000-00d94000 rw-p 00795000 03:01 82024      /avtrex/bin/pvrapp




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