Gdb, PIE and scan_dyntag(DT_DEBUG)

[Robert Jarzmik]

Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:56:59 +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
>> To be more precise, the ELF program headers of the unstripped binary and the
>> stripped binary didn't match,
>
> In general eu-strip (from elfutils; compared to binutils strip) is more
> preserving the binaries when they still should match each other.
> And Fedora is using eu-strip for the debug info packages separation.
> IIRC I have seen some other distro using regular strip for it.

And you're damn right about it. I checked the Program Headers:
  Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
                 FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align

  *** unstripped app_process ***
      [Requesting program interpreter: /system/bin/linker64]
  LOAD           0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                 0x0000000000001788 0x0000000000001788  R E    1000
  LOAD           0x0000000000001c20 0x0000000000002c20 0x0000000000002c20
                 0x00000000000003e0 0x00000000000003e8  RW     1000

  *** binutils strip passed app_process ***
      [Requesting program interpreter: /system/bin/linker64]
  LOAD           0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                 0x0000000000001788 0x0000000000001788  R E    1000
  LOAD           0x0000000000001c20 0x0000000000002c20 0x0000000000002c20
                 0x00000000000003d8 0x00000000000003e8  RW     1000

  *** elfutils eu-strip passed app_process ***
      [Requesting program interpreter: /system/bin/linker64]
  LOAD           0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                 0x0000000000001788 0x0000000000001788  R E    1000
  LOAD           0x0000000000001c20 0x0000000000002c20 0x0000000000002c20
                 0x00000000000003e0 0x00000000000003e8  RW     1000

So eu-strip makes my day :)
Thanks for the info, I didn't know there was a difference in strip between
binutils and elfutils.

Cheers.

-- 
Robert