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Re: [PATCH, MIPS] Support shared library debug with MIPS PIE (gdb)
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Matthew Fortune <Matthew dot Fortune at imgtec dot com>
- Cc: "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:31:44 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH, MIPS] Support shared library debug with MIPS PIE (gdb)
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Matthew Fortune wrote:
> Please note that the new DT_MIPS_RLD_MAP2 support will not be enabled unless
> the host's elf.h header has the new tag defined in it. For cross compiled GDB
> this may mean hacking the solib-svr4.c file to define the macro until such
> time as distributions update glibc.
That doesn't make any sense to me. Hosts (e.g. MinGW) may not have elf.h
at all. GDB should get these definitions from the #include "elf/mips.h"
already in solib-svr4.c (i.e. from toplevel's include/elf/mips.h). And so
there should be no #ifdefs there.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com