From: Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB confused by -shared object executable
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190997028.27975.162.camel@murta.transitives.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070928160532.GA14380@caradoc.them.org>
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 12:05 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:02:37PM +0100, Alex Bennee wrote:
> > Which doesn't seem to work. So questions:
> >
> > 1. Am I using the correct instantiation to load symbols at a particular
> > address?
> > 2. Should GDB check the ELF when it loads it to see if it is an
> > executable shared object?
>
> Red Hat (Elena, I think) long ago implemented support for PIE in GDB.
> What you're doing is basically the same thing. So far, no one has
> gotten around to merging that support to the FSF releases.
>
> I think it's in both the Red Hat and Ubuntu packages nowadays.
I can't speak for RedHat but it doesn't seem to be in my Ubuntu setup:
17:24 alexjb@murta/x86_64 [testcases] >gdb --version
GNU gdb 6.6-debian
I'll see if I can track down a patch from the RedHat srpms...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-28 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-28 16:05 Alex Bennee
2007-09-28 16:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-09-28 16:31 ` Alex Bennee [this message]
2007-09-28 17:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-01 10:22 ` Alex Bennee
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