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Re: [PATCH 0/3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 08:57:33 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 10:01:57 +0800
>
> This patch series only teach GDB to trust readonly sections on
> GNU/Linux targets. Some ancient Windows targets don't have memory
> protection, so we can't let GDB to rust readoly sections on mingw
> and cygwin target.
Which "ancient" Windows versions are those? Can't we decide at run
time whether to trust read-only sections, by looking at the Windows
version?