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Re: [RFA] New option "trust-readonly-sections"

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:35:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [RFA] New option "trust-readonly-sections"
References: <20020124004435.A11710@nevyn.them.org> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020124092106.16268F-100000@is>

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:22:09AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > I'd rather see this default to on.
> 
> That would be an incompatible change.  I think we should avoid such 
> changes, unless we have a very good reason.

Stan's reply was convincing.  i guess I've been spoiled by
protected-memory situations.

I'd personally like to object to your objection though, Eli. 
Performance can be a very good reason.  If it wasn't for the other
drawbacks, I'd consider the argument.

Perhaps I'm in the minority there, though.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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