Re: longjmp handling vs. glibc LD_POINTER_GUARD problems

Ulrich Weigand
2008-05-14T18:29:17Z

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> Bingo. I discussed this with Pedro, in followups to one of his nine
> patches... ah, here it is.
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-04/msg00252.html

Huh ... I completely missed that, thanks.

> And stepping on platforms that don't provide a fetch routine, plus not
> providing fetch routines on platforms which mangle the pointer, is my
> best idea so far. Maybe dropping the fetcher entirely? Will that be
> too slow?

longjmp generally shouldn't very be long, so I don't think this matters.
However, Pedro mentioned that there are problems implementing this
in the current infrun.c setup, so there maybe some more work required ...

Bye,
Ulrich

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