Re: patches for mac support

[Fawzi Mohamed <fawzi.mohamed@nokia.com>]

On Jun 27, 2011, at 10:59 AM, ext Tristan Gingold wrote:

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> On Jun 26, 2011, at 2:22 AM, <fawzi.mohamed@nokia.com> <fawzi.mohamed@nokia.com> wrote:
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>> On Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:38 AM Tristan Gingold [gingold@adacore.com] wrote:
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>> On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:07 PM, Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
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>>> Mohamed,
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>>> First, thank you for this work.
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>> you are welcome
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>>>> I have worked on bug http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11488 .
>>>> Now I think that I have reached to bottom of it, and I have a set of clean patches that could use a review.
>>>> 
>>>> Apple gdb simply ignores the eh_frame sections for the libraries without embedded dwarf info, not using eh information (which was the first patch that I submitted) but I find that one should be able to use them, so I looked further and found the "correct" fix.
>>>> As the path to it was a bit convoluted I have done a few improvements to pieces of code that did fail as consequence of the original bug.
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>>>> The "main" fix is
>>>> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5816&action=diff
>>>> which fixes the mmaped read of sections.
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>>> We (AdaCore) has something very similar in our internal tree.  I very recently worked on submitting a patch to fix this issue.
>>> The submitted patch was larger as I tried to clean-up this API.
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>> great, I don't care the way it goes, as long as it gets fixed...,
>> so I suppose I can skip submitting it, unless yours doesn't get accepted.
>> A pity hat you didn't tell this in the bug, I would have spared some debugging,
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> I am a lazy guy too :-)
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>> I am a lazy guy ;)...
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> Anyway, I have just committed our patch.
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> BTW, do you (or Nokia) have the FSF copyright assignment ?

yes Nokia has a global copyright assignment to FSF

ciao
Fawzi