From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Isn't it OK to drop 'set write'?
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150803181146.GA4674@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150726204905.GA18543@host1.jankratochvil.net>
> I cannot much imagine when it is useful. For updates of too big
> binaries there is gold incremental linking. Personally I have also
> never considered it safe enough to use it myself, hexedit is there if
> one needs to create a weird testfile.
On Tru64 (which we no longer support), thread support required writing
into inferior memory; so if you wanted thread support when debugging
a core file, you needed to set write on.
We have a couple of tests that set it unconditionally on all platforms,
and it seems to have no adverse effect. Beyond that, I'm not sure.
--
Joel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-03 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-26 20:49 Jan Kratochvil
2015-07-28 17:51 ` Doug Evans
2015-07-28 18:17 ` Jan Kratochvil
2015-08-03 18:11 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
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