cope with varying prelink base addresses

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 05:56:37PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:03:30 -0200
> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Yuck.  Fair enough.  Anyhow, I don't see any evidence that GDB
> > actually supports any such broken l_addr semantics, so it's not like
> > the patch would be breaking anything.  If anything, it would be
> > enabling gdb to work on such a system work, assuming l_ld is set up
> > correctly.

Yes - in fact I wish we'd thought of this at the time :-)

> I agree.  (I've been careful to not let in any patches which would support
> alternate l_addr semantics.)
> 
> I've been looking over your patch and would like to see it committed
> so long as it receives a some more testing first.  Would it be possible
> for you to test it on Solaris system and a BSD system?

If not, I can certainly manage Solaris; I don't have any BSD systems
here but perhaps Mark K. can oblige?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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