From: Vladimir Ulyanov <thedieselspaceship@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: 'error in process filter: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size' on gdb-display-memory-buffer
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:54:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABA4b_11zPD=nmLM6w8h3WX4BOya6835LZMOBc4rc-DYRB=FxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hello Gentlemen,
Today I was debugging my helloworld code. Launched gdb (M-x gdb then
M-x gdb-many-windows), opened memory buffer (M-x
gdb-display-memory-buffer), breaked _start, ran and did several si
commands.
after setting breakpoint to _start section of my assembly code the
error message 'error in process filter: Variable binding depth exceeds
max-specpdl-size' apears and the memory buffer is empty.
Please look at the screenshot here: http://ompldr.org/vZzJkeQ.
Emacs version:
emacs --version
GNU Emacs 24.2.1
Assembly 'hello world' code:
; build using these commands:
; nasm -f elf -g -F stabs eatsyscall.asm
; ld -o eatsyscall eatsyscall.o
SECTION .data ; section containing initialized data
EatMsg: db "Eat at Joe's!", 10
EatLen: equ $-EatMsg
SECTION .bss ; section containing uninitialized data
SECTION .text ; section containing code
_start:
nop ; this no-op keeps gdb happy
mov eax, 4 ; specify sys_write syscall
mov ebx, 1 ; specify file descriptor 1: standard output
mov ecx, EatMsg ; pass offset of the message
mov edx, EatLen ; pass the length of the message
int 80H ; make syscall to output the text to stdout
mov eax, 1 ; specify exit syscall
mov ebx, 0 ; return a code of zero
int 80H ; make syscall to terminate the program
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open an asm file (C-x C-f <filename>.asm)
2. Switch to gdb mode (M-x gdb)
3. Switch to gdb many windows mode (M-x gdb-many-windows)
4. Open gdb memory buffer anywhere (M-x gdb-display-memory-buffer)
5. Set breakpoint to _start section (break _start)
6. Run program from _start section (run)
7. Step to the mov eax,4 instruction (type si several times)
Also I would like to know how can I set pointer to executed
instruction in the source window of assembly. In my case (look at the
screenshot) an arrow points to _start only.
--
Vadym
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