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Re: GDB pie
Yeah, I'll see if I can get somebody in the team to submit the patches
for inclusion.
John Moser writes:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 20:08 -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> > I don't??
> >
> > John, have a look at the redhat gdb rpm, the patches are in there.
> >
>
> Thanks Elena. Any chance these can go into mainline, or are there still
> stability issues etc? I'm having trouble with it on Ubuntu, I can talk
> them into taking the patches from the RHAT SRPM but it would be
> beneficial to have this working everywhere for free....
>
> >
> > Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:48:18PM -0400, John Moser wrote:
> > > > It seems right now I can't get gdb to debug a program compiled with gcc
> > > > as:
> > > >
> > > > gcc -fpic -fpie -ggdb pie.c -o pie
> > > >
> > > > Somewhere there were some patches floating around that allowed gdb to
> > > > handle position independent executables; but I can't find them* and
> > > > don't know if they're up to date.
> > >
> > > Look for the two branches in the CVS repository whose name contains
> > > "pie". Elena was working on this, but ran out of time, and no longer
> > > works on GDB. That's all I know about it.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel Jacobowitz
> > > CodeSourcery
> --
> John Moser <john.r.moser@gmail.com>