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Re: [PATCH 2/9] Support fs_base and gs_base on FreeBSD/i386.

From: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>
To: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd dot org>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:58:47 -0500
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] Support fs_base and gs_base on FreeBSD/i386.
References: <cover.1548180889.git.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <dd63aee602e301565ca6853c8c40d983bc39fb2c.1548180889.git.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <c5f503bb49ed582a33e0b1b09e5f66eb@polymtl.ca> <3902e7d4-f8df-7b05-45a0-8b5d5fc33980@FreeBSD.org>

On 2019-02-04 14:45, John Baldwin wrote:

I had originally just done this out of paranoia, but I checked andFreeBSD's
amd64 kernel will actually fail attempts to set the base address higher
than 4G with EINVAL rather than silently truncating.


That's even better!

References:
- Re: [PATCH 2/9] Support fs_base and gs_base on FreeBSD/i386.
  - From: Simon Marchi
- Re: [PATCH 2/9] Support fs_base and gs_base on FreeBSD/i386.
  - From: John Baldwin

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