Re: [RFA] i386 segment base support

Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-05-20T14:44:39Z

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:39:29PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> I'm not taking a position here. I'm trying to figure out what people
> want out of this. If it is only about supporting TLS for Linux
> userland binaries we can have a radically simpler solution than when
> people want full fledged kernel-style segment register manipulating
> code to work as well.

I don't have a vested interest in either, but I think that the full
fledged version is a good goal for GDB. So even if we aren't going to
get there today, I'd favor an approach to the segment registers that
moves us in that direction.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery