From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29812 invoked by alias); 31 May 2011 21:05:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact archer-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Sender: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Received: (qmail 29802 invoked by uid 22791); 31 May 2011 21:04:59 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20110525153649.GB3149@redhat.com> <20110531162428.GB3464@redhat.com> From: Paul Pluzhnikov Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 21:05:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Improved linker-debugger interface To: Tom Tromey Cc: archer@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-System-Of-Record: true X-SW-Source: 2011-q2/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: > Paul> Making the probes wider would be ideal. > > I asked and the SystemTap guys said that they'd welcome a patch, but > that the widening would have to be optional. Optional widening would likely be useless in this context: an in-process debugger wants to just work (TM). Requiring a special build of ld-linux (with widened probes) is the opposite of that ;-( One could hope that upstream glibc would adopt wide probes by default, but I would guess that chances of that actually happening are nil. -- Paul Pluzhnikov