Re: time to workaround libc/13097 in fsf gdb?

Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-17T20:13:16Z

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 03:06:12 +0200, Doug Evans wrote:
> > On 09/12/2014 12:54 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > > Also I am not sure it is really still an issue on latest upstream glibc, it is
> > > not an issue on Fedora 21 x86_64 glibc with the reproducer from:
> > > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13097
> > >
> > > (That is old Fedoras workarounded it in glibc, then some Fedoras exposed the
> > > issue in GDB but now it is not visible - so either Fedoras workaround it again
> > > or just upstream glibc switched/workarounds it also.)
>
> I downloaded glibc 2.20 and tested it with gdb 7.8.
> Still an issue.
> [I just did a simple build, if there's a configure option
> that will fix things I didn't try one.]

I have then explained this unreproducibility for me by:
[bfd patch] Regression for Linux vDSO in GDB
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-09/msg00140.html

Jan