From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10745 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2010 20:25:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 10728 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jan 2010 20:25:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:25:02 +0000 Received: from int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.17]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o0AKP1vo021526 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:25:01 -0500 Received: from host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o0AKOqtQ010282 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:25:00 -0500 Received: from host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0AKOoDg030371; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:24:50 +0100 Received: (from jkratoch@localhost) by host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0AKOnMH030368; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:24:49 +0100 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:25:00 -0000 From: Jan Kratochvil To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Jeff Johnston Subject: Re: [patch 00/15] PIE: Position Independent Executable support Message-ID: <20100110202448.GL10482@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> References: <20091109205633.GA19138@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-01/txt/msg00232.txt.bz2 On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:07:02 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil writes: > > Jan> The patchset does not introduce nothing much new and it is more a > Jan> general set of miscellaneous fixes merged together to make a > Jan> special inferior case of PIE working. At least some of the small > Jan> fixes should be easy to get accepted. > > I think this patch should have a NEWS entry. Sure only after the patchset gets checked-in. Thanks, Jan 2010-01-10 Jan Kratochvil * NEWS: Document the PIE support. --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -184,6 +184,10 @@ much more reliable. In particular: - GDB is now able to backtrace through the signal handler for non-threaded programs. +PIE (Position Independent Executable) programs debugging is now supported. +This includes debugging execution of PIC (Position Independent Code) shared +libraries although such libraries must first support their execution. + *** Changes in GDB 7.0 * GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation. Applications that