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

Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-10T20:25:08Z

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:07:02 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Jan> The patchset does not introduce nothing much new and it is more a
> Jan> general set of miscellaneous fixes merged together to make a
> Jan> special inferior case of PIE working. At least some of the small
> Jan> fixes should be easy to get accepted.
>
> I think this patch should have a NEWS entry.

Sure only after the patchset gets checked-in.

Thanks,
Jan

2010-01-10 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>

* NEWS: Document the PIE support.

--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@ 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 such libraries must first support their execution.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.0

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