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Re: [patch 00/15] PIE: Position Independent Executable support
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:24:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: [patch 00/15] PIE: Position Independent Executable support
- References: <20091109205633.GA19138@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <m37htycnrd.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:07:02 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Jan> The patchset does not introduce nothing much new and it is more a
> Jan> general set of miscellaneous fixes merged together to make a
> Jan> special inferior case of PIE working. At least some of the small
> Jan> fixes should be easy to get accepted.
>
> I think this patch should have a NEWS entry.
Sure only after the patchset gets checked-in.
Thanks,
Jan
2010-01-10 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Document the PIE support.
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@ much more reliable. In particular:
- GDB is now able to backtrace through the signal handler for
non-threaded programs.
+PIE (Position Independent Executable) programs debugging is now supported.
+This includes debugging execution of PIC (Position Independent Code) shared
+libraries although such libraries must first support their execution.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.0
* GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation. Applications that