Re: [patch 00/15] PIE: Position Independent Executable support

Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-10T22:27:00Z

On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:02:59 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > +PIE (Position Independent Executable) programs debugging is now supported.
> > +This includes debugging execution of PIC (Position Independent Code) shared
> > +libraries although such libraries must first support their execution.
> ^
> A comma here

OK, in next mail.

> Also, by "such libraries must first support their execution", do you
> mean the libraries should support PIE programs? If so, I think saying
> that would make this a lot clearer.

No...
$ /lib64/libc.so.6
GNU C Library stable release version 2.11.1, by Roland McGrath et al.
[...]
vs.
$ /lib64/libz.so.1
Segmentation fault

One can debug now the former but debugging the latter is not much productive.

A more clear wording is welcome, I tried.

Thanks,
Jan