From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3741 invoked by alias); 20 May 2010 14:44:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 3729 invoked by uid 22791); 20 May 2010 14:44:37 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 May 2010 14:44:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 23139 invoked from network); 20 May 2010 14:44:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO caradoc.them.org) (dan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 20 May 2010 14:44:30 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:30:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: teawater@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, dje@google.com, msnyder@vmware.com, eliz@gnu.org Subject: Re: [RFA] i386 segment base support Message-ID: <20100520144424.GZ8410@caradoc.them.org> References: <201005200819.o4K8JseL023478@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20100520125437.GU8410@caradoc.them.org> <201005201439.o4KEdTqF031135@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201005201439.o4KEdTqF031135@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2010-05/txt/msg00416.txt.bz2 On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:39:29PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > I'm not taking a position here. I'm trying to figure out what people > want out of this. If it is only about supporting TLS for Linux > userland binaries we can have a radically simpler solution than when > people want full fledged kernel-style segment register manipulating > code to work as well. I don't have a vested interest in either, but I think that the full fledged version is a good goal for GDB. So even if we aren't going to get there today, I'd favor an approach to the segment registers that moves us in that direction. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery