Re: patches for mac support

[André Pönitz <andre dot poenitz at nokia dot com>]

On Monday 27 June 2011 10:59:12 ext Tristan Gingold wrote:
> [...]
> > On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:07 PM, Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
> >  [...]
> >>> I have worked on bug http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11488 .
> >>> Now I think that I have reached to bottom of it, and I have a set of clean patches that could use a review.
> >>> 
> >>> Apple gdb simply ignores the eh_frame sections for the libraries without embedded dwarf info, not using eh information (which was the first patch that I submitted) but I find that one should be able to use them, so I looked further and found the "correct" fix.
> >>> As the path to it was a bit convoluted I have done a few improvements to pieces of code that did fail as consequence of the original bug.
> >>> 
> >>> The "main" fix is
> >>>  http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=5816&action=diff
> >>> which fixes the mmaped read of sections.
> >> 
> >> We (AdaCore) has something very similar in our internal tree.  I very recently worked on submitting a patch to fix this issue.
> >> The submitted patch was larger as I tried to clean-up this API.
> > 
> > great, I don't care the way it goes, as long as it gets fixed...,
> > so I suppose I can skip submitting it, unless yours doesn't get accepted.
> > A pity hat you didn't tell this in the bug, I would have spared some debugging,
> 
> I am a lazy guy too :-)
> 
> > I am a lazy guy ;)...
> 
> Anyway, I have just committed our patch.

Thanks a lot for the effort.

> BTW, do you (or Nokia) have the FSF copyright assignment ?

There should be a company-wide one for gdb. Extremely agile process btw.

But is that relevant at all if you apply _your_ patch?

Regards,
Andre'