Re: [RFA] Disable ASLR on Darwin

[Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>]

On Wednesday 21 September 2011 15:34:30, Pedro Alves wrote:
> 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.

s/to disable/to enable/

-- 
Pedro Alves