Re: [RFA] Disable ASLR on Darwin

[Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>]

On Sep 21, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 September 2011 14:45:37, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> this patch disable ASLR on Darwin for spawned programs, so that you can reuse breakpoint/watchpoints with addresses.
>> Also this adds support for PIE for free (as already noted by Pedro, this doesn't handle attached processes).
>> 
>> Contrary to other OS, this is done at exec (i.e. posix_spawn) time.  In order to use posix_spawn instead of exec, I added a parameter to fork_inferior, adjusted all the calls of fork_inferior (I preferred to pass NULL instead of execvp, because the prototype of the later is somewhat not universal), and added the real work for darwin.
>> 
>> No regressions on i386/GNU linux
>> Manually tested on Lion.
>> 
>> Ok for trunk ?
> 
> Okay, though it's a shame you don't leave the option to disable
> ASLR with a user setting like on linux.

Ok, I will add this option after completing the support of PIE on darwin.

Tristan.