From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14065 invoked by alias); 25 Aug 2006 00:37:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 14056 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Aug 2006 00:37:24 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:37:22 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k7P0bJpq007923; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:37:19 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (vpn50-39.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.39]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k7P0bEXt001842; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:37:14 -0400 Received: by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 469) id CE7FF1A4952; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:32:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Elena Zannoni MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17646.17688.579869.788626@localhost.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:37:00 -0000 To: John Moser Cc: Elena Zannoni , Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB pie In-Reply-To: <1156466020.7320.12.camel@localhost> References: <1156463298.7320.9.camel@localhost> <20060825000835.GA19638@nevyn.them.org> <17646.16271.984460.625854@localhost.redhat.com> <1156466020.7320.12.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-08/txt/msg00192.txt.bz2 Yeah, I'll see if I can get somebody in the team to submit the patches for inclusion. John Moser writes: > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 20:08 -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote: > > I don't?? > > > > John, have a look at the redhat gdb rpm, the patches are in there. > > > > Thanks Elena. Any chance these can go into mainline, or are there still > stability issues etc? I'm having trouble with it on Ubuntu, I can talk > them into taking the patches from the RHAT SRPM but it would be > beneficial to have this working everywhere for free.... > > > > > Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:48:18PM -0400, John Moser wrote: > > > > It seems right now I can't get gdb to debug a program compiled with gcc > > > > as: > > > > > > > > gcc -fpic -fpie -ggdb pie.c -o pie > > > > > > > > Somewhere there were some patches floating around that allowed gdb to > > > > handle position independent executables; but I can't find them* and > > > > don't know if they're up to date. > > > > > > Look for the two branches in the CVS repository whose name contains > > > "pie". Elena was working on this, but ran out of time, and no longer > > > works on GDB. That's all I know about it. > > > > > > -- > > > Daniel Jacobowitz > > > CodeSourcery > -- > John Moser