GDB pie

[Elena Zannoni]

Yeah, I'll see if I can get somebody in the team to submit the patches
for inclusion.



John Moser writes:
 > 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
 > -- 
 > John Moser <john.r.moser@gmail.com>