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Re: [7.0] PR/9723: gdb breakpoints silently fail on PIE binaries

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago dot bauermann at gmail dot com>
Cc: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:26:13 -0400
Subject: Re: [7.0] PR/9723: gdb breakpoints silently fail on PIE binaries
References: <200907192257.08197.thiago.bauermann@gmail.com> <8ac60eac0907192113s54f996a7m2fac203e07687272@mail.gmail.com> <200907242312.42358.thiago.bauermann@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:12:41PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> Now I have this issue, I'd like to ask people's opinion about it: by design 
> (or defect?) the BFD library is a PITA to access the program header. I feel 
> very tempted to use elf32.h and elf64.h directly in order to check that field. 
> My only worry is that a cross-debugging session with a win32 gdb and a linux 
> remote target would not be possible, unless windows includes such sysv elf 
> headers too (perhaps it does?).

elfread.c:elf_symfile_segments.  It's not much of a pain really?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

References:
- [7.0] PR/9723: gdb breakpoints silently fail on PIE binaries
  - From: Thiago Jung Bauermann
- Re: [7.0] PR/9723: gdb breakpoints silently fail on PIE binaries
  - From: Paul Pluzhnikov
- Re: [7.0] PR/9723: gdb breakpoints silently fail on PIE binaries
  - From: Thiago Jung Bauermann

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