From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: yao@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130906145205.GF3001@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8361uem5yv.fsf@gnu.org>
> > IMO, XP is probably the most ancient version that would be reasonable
> > to support. Are people still developping on more ancient versions?
>
> If we support XP, extending support to Windows 2000 or even NT 4.0
> comes almost at no cost. IMO, there's no need to drop support for
> platforms whose support doesn't impose any tangible maintenance
> headaches.
>
> Windows 9X can be easily recognized at run time, and the feature that
> is the subject of this thread can be turned off then.
Perhaps a compromise: For the new feature to fail, it'd need an
extremely ancient version of Windows, coupled with a bad program
that writes outside of its memory area. How about we forgo the
Windows 9x detection, and just enable the feature on Windows
unconditionally? This removes the burden from Yao, who shouldn't
be asked to do this work unless he wants to. Then, if someone
believes it's necessary to turn the feature off by default on
old versions of Windows, it should be easy for them to do so.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-06 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 2:03 Yao Qi
2013-09-06 2:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] set trust-readonly-sections off in test cases Yao Qi
2013-09-06 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06 17:23 ` Pedro Alves
2013-09-06 2:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection Yao Qi
2013-09-06 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06 9:07 ` Yao Qi
2013-09-06 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06 2:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] Linux " Yao Qi
2013-09-06 5:57 ` [PATCH 0/3] Trust readonly sections if target " Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06 8:24 ` Yao Qi
2013-09-06 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06 13:03 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-09-06 13:27 ` Yao Qi
2013-09-06 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06 14:17 ` Pierre Muller
[not found] ` <"000d01ceab0b$d53ae600$7fb0b200$@muller"@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
2013-09-06 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06 14:52 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2013-09-06 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06 18:10 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-09-06 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06 13:00 ` Joel Brobecker
2013-09-08 12:04 ` [PATCH 0/7 V2] " Yao Qi
2013-09-08 12:04 ` [PATCH 1/7] Emit a warning when writing to a readonly section and trust_readonly is true Yao Qi
2013-09-08 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-08 12:05 ` [PATCH 7/7] Windows has memory protection Yao Qi
2013-09-08 12:05 ` [PATCH 2/7] set trust-readonly-sections off in test cases Yao Qi
2013-09-08 12:05 ` [PATCH 4/7] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection Yao Qi
2013-09-08 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-09 7:49 ` Yao Qi
2013-09-09 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-08 12:05 ` [PATCH 3/7] New function windows_init_abi Yao Qi
2013-09-08 12:05 ` [PATCH 6/7] Linux has memory protection Yao Qi
2013-09-08 12:05 ` [PATCH 5/7] DOC and NEWS Yao Qi
2013-09-09 19:16 ` [PATCH 0/7 V2] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection Mark Kettenis
2013-09-10 4:06 ` Yao Qi
2013-09-12 8:30 ` Yao Qi
2013-09-12 9:49 ` Mark Kettenis
2013-09-13 8:17 ` Yao Qi
2013-09-30 17:50 ` Pedro Alves
2013-09-30 18:08 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-07 22:29 ` Stan Shebs
2013-10-08 12:18 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-08 12:47 ` Abid, Hafiz
2013-10-08 13:36 ` tmirza
2013-10-09 2:24 ` Doug Evans
2013-10-23 10:16 ` Yao Qi
2013-10-15 0:44 ` Yao Qi
2013-09-20 2:47 ` [PATCH 0/7 V3] " Yao Qi
2013-09-20 2:47 ` [PATCH 6/7] Linux " Yao Qi
2013-09-20 2:47 ` [PATCH 2/7] set trust-readonly-sections off in test cases Yao Qi
2013-09-20 2:47 ` [PATCH 5/7] DOC and NEWS Yao Qi
2013-09-20 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-20 2:47 ` [PATCH 3/7] New function windows_init_abi Yao Qi
2013-09-30 18:23 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-01 6:47 ` Yao Qi
2013-10-01 9:35 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-01 13:23 ` Yao Qi
2013-09-20 2:47 ` [PATCH 7/7] Windows has memory protection Yao Qi
2013-09-20 2:47 ` [PATCH 1/7] Emit a query when writing to a readonly section and trust_readonly is true Yao Qi
2013-09-20 2:47 ` [PATCH 4/7] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection and in remote debugging Yao Qi
2013-09-29 13:51 ` [PATCH 0/7 V3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection Yao Qi
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