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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:04:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: Fwd: GDB 7.8 update (getting closer, new pre-release)
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, 	Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> > > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=144bed8d4d8a1bdc0067f55f2ee71c07e5594677
>> > > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=cca5b8b64b3286bb96cd7a2c18232d1acea85cd9
>> > >
>> > > in GDB 7.8. It properly disassembles PLT section in libc.so with
>> > > IFUNC.
>> >
>> > Can you please have one of the binutils maintainers assess the risk
>> > level of backporting these patches into 7.8?
>>
>> I've become a little rusty on the x86 target code but it looks OK to
>> me.  The simple approach that HJ has taken is quite suited to a
>> release branch, as compared to redesigning x86_64 ifunc support..
>> (The latter might be preferable on mainline to avoid the reloc
>> scanning, if possible, but I leave that decision to HJ.)
>
> Thanks, Alan.
>
> HJ,
>
> if this hasn't been ported to the branch yet, please go ahead now.
>

I checked them into 7.8 branch.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.