Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️
wow. the GDB remote stub sure works in a way that I'm sure made sense to someone at some point
Mar 20, 2023 at 1:42amWeb
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 20, 2023
hmm. I've got three things: a program implementing a GDB stub, a python module to parse it, and a spec from the GDB documentation.
They do not agree, but I do not know enough about how this shit is SUPPOSED to work to tell which one is fucked.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 20, 2023
I'm just gonna assume that someone compiled this code for the emulator and it has never worked. that'll let me keep more of my sanity.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 20, 2023

can't find a breakpoint because the code that's encoding breakpoint values is encoding them into lowercase and the remote gdb stub is encoding them into uppercase.

so if the address of your address point has any hex digits, it'll fail.

because 80153ff8 != 80153FF8

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 20, 2023
COMPUTERS WERE A MISTAKE
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 20, 2023
and now I'm running into a completely different issue where the emulation stops, and the emulator looks like it's stopped on a breakpoint, but it apparently never tells the GDB remote about this. So it hangs forever
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 20, 2023
I could switch away from this janky untested hack version of the GDB protocol, except then I'd need a binary GDB compiled to match my target architecture, and I'm not sure one even exists.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 20, 2023
I could try wiresharking my gdb stub but that seems like the actions of someone who on their last rope
Show threadBrian CampbellMar 20, 2023
@foone That someone sounds like you.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 20, 2023
@unlambda it's true, but unfair to say it
Show threadAdrián PérezMar 20, 2023
@foone that reminds me of some tribulations that @badlogic went through a while ago to get DJGPP DOS programs debugged with GDB 
Show threadLP still can't spell AinmhíconMar 20, 2023

@foone It's a network protocol, right?

Lowercasing proxy? 

Show threadTevruden DawnspearMar 20, 2023
@foone What a mood
Show threadkacpMar 20, 2023
@foone butlerian jihad
Show threadTHIS ACCOUNT HAS MOVEDMar 21, 2023
@foone did you type that in ASCII or Unicode?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 21, 2023
@noplasticshower I've got a special mastodon client that does ebcdic
Show threadPaul LalondeMar 20, 2023
@foone that's bad in so many ways.
Show threadChristian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Mar 20, 2023
@foone It appears you've reached your breaking point
Show threadThe DoctorMar 20, 2023
@foone It sounds like we've been having similar days.
Show threadXaiaX ̆̈‏Mar 20, 2023
@foone this is the most cursed thing I’ve read in at least 48 hours.
Show threadeldondevMar 21, 2023
Any possibility the prior user could have used an octal or full binary encoding? No case to switch.
Show threadmmu_manMar 20, 2023
@foone ain't any GDB stub supposed to make sense when it's ever finished?