Re: GDB pie

[John Moser <john dot r dot moser at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 20:08 -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> I don't??
> 
> John, have a look at the redhat gdb rpm, the patches are in there.
> 

Thanks Elena.  Any chance these can go into mainline, or are there still
stability issues etc?  I'm having trouble with it on Ubuntu, I can talk
them into taking the patches from the RHAT SRPM but it would be
beneficial to have this working everywhere for free....

> 
> Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
>  > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:48:18PM -0400, John Moser wrote:
>  > > It seems right now I can't get gdb to debug a program compiled with gcc
>  > > as:
>  > > 
>  > > gcc -fpic -fpie -ggdb pie.c -o pie
>  > > 
>  > > Somewhere there were some patches floating around that allowed gdb to
>  > > handle position independent executables; but I can't find them* and
>  > > don't know if they're up to date.
>  > 
>  > Look for the two branches in the CVS repository whose name contains
>  > "pie".  Elena was working on this, but ran out of time, and no longer
>  > works on GDB.  That's all I know about it.
>  > 
>  > -- 
>  > Daniel Jacobowitz
>  > CodeSourcery
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John Moser <john.r.moser@gmail.com>

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