From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Do we need to support PIE + stabs?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 14:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kzwq487.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79870605-9b6b-bee0-ea91-99303c79f220@suse.de> (Tom de Vries's message of "Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:18:52 +0200")
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> writes:
>> Do we need to support PIE + stabs? Can we just declare stabs as mostly
>> dead and ignore this instead? On the whole that would be my preference,
>> if it's possible, because in my view this more closely mirrors
>> reality... my understanding is that, last time anybody checked, stabs
>> were still used by a few programs in a typical distro (for some unknown
>> reason), but otherwise they are just totally obsolete.
Tom> I don't know the answer to that, and I think it's a question broader
Tom> than suggested by the current subject, so, promoting the question to the
Tom> subject.
No-one has answered yet...
I still think the answer is "no" for the reasons outlined above.
thanks,
Tom
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-16 15:58 [PATCH][gdb/symtab] Handle gas-generated stabs with -fPIE/-pie Tom de Vries
2019-08-29 15:04 ` [PING][PATCH][gdb/symtab] " Tom de Vries
2019-09-06 15:31 ` [PING^2][PATCH][gdb/symtab] " Tom de Vries
2019-09-13 19:51 ` [PING^3][PATCH][gdb/symtab] " Tom de Vries
2019-10-09 14:47 ` [PATCH][gdb/symtab] " Tom Tromey
2019-10-15 10:18 ` [RFC] Do we need to support PIE + stabs? Tom de Vries
2019-10-25 14:39 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
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