[RFC] Crash sourcing Python script on Windows

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Thu Sep 29 07:26:00 GMT 2011


> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:13:20 +0200
> From: John Spencer <maillist-gdbpatches@barfooze.de>
> 
> FILE is supposed to be an opaque type and as such noone except of the 
> libc which defines it is supposed to "poke" at its internals.
> however it is common practice in GNU software to assume everybody uses 
> GLIBC and poke around in internal stuff thats not supposed to be 
> accessibly at all in userland. another example of such illegal behaviour 
> is libevent, which does illegal things with fd_set internals to allow 
> more than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors to be used with select().

Do we really have such code in GDB?  I'd be surprised.



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