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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, jjohnstn@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 00/15] PIE: Position Independent Executable support
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100114212513.GI18716@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100111144502.GA7942@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>

Hi,

checked-in the NEWS part.


Thanks,
Jan


http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2010-01/msg00128.html

--- src/gdb/ChangeLog	2010/01/14 21:20:09	1.11252
+++ src/gdb/ChangeLog	2010/01/14 21:24:04	1.11253
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 2010-01-14  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+	    Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+	* NEWS: Document the PIE support.
+
+2010-01-14  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
 
 	* linux-tdep.c: Remove includes gdbcore.h, observer.h and elf-bfd.h.
 	(check_is_pie_binary, _initialize_linux_tdep): Remove.
--- src/gdb/NEWS	2010/01/11 19:29:12	1.348
+++ src/gdb/NEWS	2010/01/14 21:24:05	1.349
@@ -189,6 +189,11 @@
   - 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 for that, it should be possible to run such libraries as an
+executable program.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 7.0
 
 * GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation.  Applications that


      reply	other threads:[~2010-01-14 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-09 20:56 Jan Kratochvil
2009-11-10 17:07 ` Tom Tromey
2010-01-10 20:25   ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-10 22:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-10 22:27       ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-11  4:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-11 14:45           ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-14 21:25             ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]

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