From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Kettenis To: ac131313@cygnus.com Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [5.1/breakpoint] shlib patch? Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:32:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <3B47384A.3000300@cygnus.com> <200107082216.f68MGg824625@delius.kettenis.local> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00306.html Mark Kettenis writes: > No nothing happened. The patch listed is not quite right :-(. The > basic problem is that GDB assumes that shared libraries will be loaded > at their own, fixed, address. That's not true with modern shared > library systems, and becomes problematic whith dynamically loaded > modules. I have a simpler patch that's also not quite right, but if > we cannot fix the problem properly, we might want to add it (as a > stopgap) to 5.1. To follow up on my own message. I tried to write a test that checks for the broken behaviour, and I managed to come up with something where event my workaround fails. I'll start thinking about a proper solution, but we probably must accept that we cannot fix this properly for 5.1. Mark