From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7615 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2006 02:08:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 7601 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Feb 2006 02:08:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:08:56 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1F8pcc-0002ZF-Ew; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:08:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:08:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Kevin Buettner Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: cope with varying prelink base addresses Message-ID: <20060214020854.GA9848@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Kevin Buettner , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200602082139.k18LdXig008477@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060210014235.GB8310@nevyn.them.org> <20060213175637.4ac50484@ironwood.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060213175637.4ac50484@ironwood.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00295.txt.bz2 On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 05:56:37PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote: > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:03:30 -0200 > Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > Yuck. Fair enough. Anyhow, I don't see any evidence that GDB > > actually supports any such broken l_addr semantics, so it's not like > > the patch would be breaking anything. If anything, it would be > > enabling gdb to work on such a system work, assuming l_ld is set up > > correctly. Yes - in fact I wish we'd thought of this at the time :-) > I agree. (I've been careful to not let in any patches which would support > alternate l_addr semantics.) > > I've been looking over your patch and would like to see it committed > so long as it receives a some more testing first. Would it be possible > for you to test it on Solaris system and a BSD system? If not, I can certainly manage Solaris; I don't have any BSD systems here but perhaps Mark K. can oblige? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery