From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17522 invoked by alias); 27 Jan 2002 03:08:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17478 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2002 03:08:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 03:08:55 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16UfgI-0001eE-00; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:08:34 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:08:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Salman Khilji Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: mmap on Linux broken??? Message-ID: <20020126220834.A6125@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Salman Khilji , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00312.txt.bz2 On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 12:35:31AM +0000, Salman Khilji wrote: > I tried to use the -mapped option of gdb to dump the symbol table into a > memory mapped file, but gdb compains that mmap() is not available on my > system---either missig or broken? I am using Mandrake 8.1 which has the > 2.4.8 kernel. I thought memory mapped files was available on Linux---am I > wrong? You need to configure --with-mmalloc to use this feature. Either the code or the error needs to be tweaked. > Hmm... this means that you can't create a proprietory GUI for gdb...right? > > Anyone heard of such a thing? Sorry this is getting off topic into > licensing issues. > > So this means that if you use in your proprietory software a call to > CreateProcess() or exec() to launch binutils (objdump) it would be illegal? > > Also what if you use objdump standalone and create a dump file. Then you > parse the dump file using your own code? Please take this to a more legal-oriented list, thanks. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer