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 18:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130906181015.GG3001@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y57akkp7.fsf@gnu.org>
> > 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.
>
> Fine with me, but then why not enable this on all platforms?
Not all platforms are in the particular situation I was describing.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-06 18:10 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 2/3] " 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 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 3/3] Linux has memory protection 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
2013-09-06 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-06 18:10 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
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 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 2/7] set trust-readonly-sections off in test cases Yao Qi
2013-09-08 12:05 ` [PATCH 7/7] Windows has memory protection Yao Qi
2013-09-08 12:05 ` [PATCH 5/7] DOC and NEWS Yao Qi
2013-09-08 12:05 ` [PATCH 6/7] Linux has memory protection Yao Qi
2013-09-09 19:16 ` [PATCH 0/7 V2] Trust readonly sections if target " 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 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 6/7] Linux has memory protection 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 4/7] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection and in remote debugging 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
2013-09-29 13:51 ` [PATCH 0/7 V3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection Yao Qi
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