pie support

Hi, what is the status of PIE support in gdb?  From reading
the lists,
I see that Elena  Redhat created patches to add PIE
support. Most of
the other distros have now incorporated these into their
versions of
gdb.  What needs to be done in order to have these patches
incorporated
into gdb?  Is there something I can do to help?

Was this addressed to the wrong list?

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:04:47 -0500
inf41md.gdb wrote:

> Hi, what is the status of PIE support in gdb?  From
reading the lists,
> I see that Elena  Redhat created patches to add PIE
support. Most of
> the other distros have now incorporated these into
their versions of
> gdb.  What needs to be done in order to have these
patches incorporated
> into gdb?  Is there something I can do to help?

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:01:41PM -0400, inf41md.gdbgmail.com
wrote:
> Was this addressed to the wrong list?

No one knew the answer.

I imagine someone (with an FSF copyright assignment) would
have to
take Elena's patches, merge them to the trunk version of
GDB, test
them, and submit them to be included.  The last time I
checked PIE
support had been disabled in Ubuntu because the patches no
longer
worked.

Jan K. might know more about it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

Daniel Jacobowitz <drowfalse.org> writes:

> I imagine someone (with an FSF copyright assignment)
would have to
> take Elena's patches, merge them to the trunk version
of GDB, test
> them, and submit them to be included.  The last time I
checked PIE
> support had been disabled in Ubuntu because the patches
no longer
> worked.

The attached patch works for me, but is not very well tested
and might
need some cleanup.

Andreas.

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Germany
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On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:58:36 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
...
> The attached patch works for me, but is not very well
tested and might
> need some cleanup.

Fedora is now using the tested 6.6 patch
	http://cvs.fedora.redhat.
com/viewcvs/*checkout*/rpms/gdb/F-8/gdb-6.3-pie-20050110.pat
ch
while the 6.8pre patch may or may not still need some fixes
(unreleased so far)
	http://cvs.fedora.redha
t.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/rpms/gdb/devel/gdb-6.3-pie-20050110
.patch

It definitely needs a major cleanup and it should be
cross-checked with the
much more simple SuSE patch.


Regards,
Jan