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

Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-14T21:25:29Z

Hi,

checked-in the NEWS part.

Thanks,
Jan

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2010-01/msg00128.html

--- src/gdb/ChangeLog 2010/01/14 21:20:09 1.11252
+++ src/gdb/ChangeLog 2010/01/14 21:24:04 1.11253
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
2010-01-14 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+ Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+ * NEWS: Document the PIE support.
+
+2010-01-14 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>

* linux-tdep.c: Remove includes gdbcore.h, observer.h and elf-bfd.h.
(check_is_pie_binary, _initialize_linux_tdep): Remove.
--- src/gdb/NEWS 2010/01/11 19:29:12 1.348
+++ src/gdb/NEWS 2010/01/14 21:24:05 1.349
@@ -189,6 +189,11 @@
- GDB is now able to backtrace through the signal handler for
non-threaded programs.

+PIE (Position Independent Executable) programs debugging is now supported.
+This includes debugging execution of PIC (Position Independent Code) shared
+libraries although for that, it should be possible to run such libraries as an
+executable program.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.0

* GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation. Applications that