Re: cope with varying prelink base addresses

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>]

On Feb  8, 2006, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Would it make sense to add a user command/variable that will tell GDB
> the difference between the two base addresses?

Err...  Not really.  Unless you mean some per-dynamic-object setting.
And I really think it's overkill.

Perhaps it migth make sense to ask the user what to do whenever we
detect an inconsistency between the expected address of l_ld and the
address it is on, offering a reasonable default, but even that is
probably overkill, and it might change the behavior if l_ld doesn't
mean what we think it does.

Besides, we already sort-of have the means to do it.  GDB has commands
to set the addresses of individual sections.  It would be a pain, but
it can be done.

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