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

Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-11T14:45:36Z

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:09:41 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> "although for that, it should be possible to run such libraries as an
> executable program", I think.

OK, thanks (assuming the comma is there just the one at its right place).

Regards,
Jan

2010-01-11 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

* NEWS: Document the PIE support.

--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -184,6 +184,11 @@ much more reliable. In particular:
- 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