From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA] Disable ASLR on Darwin
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109211534.30277.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EDAE3865-56A4-4962-9E29-FF1353DBC11A@adacore.com>
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 14:45:37, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this patch disable ASLR on Darwin for spawned programs, so that you can reuse breakpoint/watchpoints with addresses.
> Also this adds support for PIE for free (as already noted by Pedro, this doesn't handle attached processes).
>
> Contrary to other OS, this is done at exec (i.e. posix_spawn) time. In order to use posix_spawn instead of exec, I added a parameter to fork_inferior, adjusted all the calls of fork_inferior (I preferred to pass NULL instead of execvp, because the prototype of the later is somewhat not universal), and added the real work for darwin.
>
> No regressions on i386/GNU linux
> Manually tested on Lion.
>
> Ok for trunk ?
Okay, though it's a shame you don't leave the option to disable
ASLR with a user setting like on linux.
--
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-21 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-21 13:57 Tristan Gingold
2011-09-21 14:36 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2011-09-21 15:07 ` Pedro Alves
2011-09-22 11:47 ` Tristan Gingold
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