From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,
sanjoy@playingwithpointers.com,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] New JIT unwinder.
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hb4ybxbl.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110820194503.GA21581@host1.jankratochvil.net> (Jan Kratochvil's message of "Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:45:03 +0200")
>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
Jan> Couldn't GDB just export these functions to the plugin without
Jan> having to use the callbacks vector? Python does so, libthread_db
Jan> does so (see proc-service.list).
Mark> I'd say that's a bad idea. The --dynamic-list linker option isn't
Mark> uniformly available, and even -rdynamic may not work everywehere.
Jan> But neither glibc libthread_db nor Python works there. But it is
Jan> true I heard some platforms have problems creating libraries with
Jan> referenced unresolved by any other library.
I think the proposed approach is more flexible, since it lets us more
easily mess with renames and API version changes while keeping
compatibility; while I don't think there are definite advantages to the
libthread_db approach.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-30 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-20 6:26 JIT Reader (re-roll) Sanjoy Das
2011-08-20 6:26 ` [PATCH 1/6] Introduce header (jit-reader.in) and modify build system Sanjoy Das
2011-08-20 18:04 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-08-20 18:18 ` Sanjoy Das
2011-08-20 6:27 ` [PATCH 5/6] New JIT unwinder Sanjoy Das
2011-08-20 17:59 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-08-20 18:30 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-08-20 19:45 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-08-30 17:53 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-08-20 6:27 ` [PATCH 3/6] New commands for loading and unloading a reader Sanjoy Das
2011-08-20 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-20 17:31 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-08-20 6:27 ` [PATCH 2/6] Platform agnostic dynamic loading code Sanjoy Das
2011-08-20 6:33 ` [PATCH 4/6] Use the loaded reader Sanjoy Das
2011-08-20 6:33 ` [PATCH 6/6] Documentation Sanjoy Das
2011-08-20 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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