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-rw-r--r--gdb/x86-64-linux-nat.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/x86-64-linux-nat.c b/gdb/x86-64-linux-nat.c
index 268aad583bb..85912e81380 100644
--- a/gdb/x86-64-linux-nat.c
+++ b/gdb/x86-64-linux-nat.c
@@ -147,8 +147,7 @@ fill_gregset (elf_gregset_t * gregsetp, int regno)
for (i = 0; i < X86_64_NUM_GREGS; i++)
if ((regno == -1 || regno == i))
- *(regp + x86_64_regmap[i]) =
- *(elf_greg_t *) & registers[REGISTER_BYTE (i)];
+ read_register_gen (i, regp + x86_64_regmap[i]);
}
/* Fetch all general-purpose registers from process/thread TID and
@@ -417,6 +416,9 @@ child_xfer_memory (CORE_ADDR memaddr, char *myaddr, int len, int write,
= (((memaddr + len) - addr) + sizeof (PTRACE_XFER_TYPE) - 1)
/ sizeof (PTRACE_XFER_TYPE);
/* Allocate buffer of that many longwords. */
+ /* FIXME (alloca): This code, cloned from infptrace.c, is unsafe
+ because it uses alloca to allocate a buffer of arbitrary size.
+ For very large xfers, this could crash GDB's stack. */
register PTRACE_XFER_TYPE *buffer
= (PTRACE_XFER_TYPE *) alloca (count * sizeof (PTRACE_XFER_TYPE));