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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,	Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: GDB 7.8 update (getting closer, new pre-release)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140728151448.GA6644@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140719214017.GA9087@bubble.grove.modra.org>

> > > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=144bed8d4d8a1bdc0067f55f2ee71c07e5594677
> > > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=cca5b8b64b3286bb96cd7a2c18232d1acea85cd9
> > >
> > > in GDB 7.8. It properly disassembles PLT section in libc.so with
> > > IFUNC.
> > 
> > Can you please have one of the binutils maintainers assess the risk
> > level of backporting these patches into 7.8?
> 
> I've become a little rusty on the x86 target code but it looks OK to
> me.  The simple approach that HJ has taken is quite suited to a
> release branch, as compared to redesigning x86_64 ifunc support..
> (The latter might be preferable on mainline to avoid the reloc
> scanning, if possible, but I leave that decision to HJ.)

Thanks, Alan.

HJ,

if this hasn't been ported to the branch yet, please go ahead now.

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-28 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-17 13:39 Joel Brobecker
2014-07-17 15:07 ` H.J. Lu
2014-07-17 22:19   ` Joel Brobecker
     [not found]     ` <CAMe9rOp05O-S-Pg1cEiFm+FdzknDSwJg3FTrob-K=UPXKSMmEA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-07-20  0:56       ` Fwd: " Alan Modra
2014-07-28 18:18         ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2014-07-28 19:04           ` H.J. Lu
2014-07-17 18:23 ` Doug Evans
2014-07-18 19:27   ` Doug Evans
2014-07-28 20:20 ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2014-07-28 20:23   ` Joel Brobecker
2014-07-28 21:47     ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado

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