From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18376 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2014 22:21:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 18360 invoked by uid 89); 25 Sep 2014 22:21:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:21:32 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s8PMLU8o024862 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:21:30 -0400 Received: from localhost (dhcp-10-15-16-169.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.16.169]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s8PMLTXI021907 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:21:30 -0400 From: Sergio Durigan Junior To: Pedro Alves Cc: GDB Patches , Gary Benson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove support for "rtld_" prefix on solib-svr4 probes References: <1411581801-19126-1-git-send-email-sergiodj@redhat.com> <5423F08B.1040409@redhat.com> <87bnq3h1gf.fsf_-_@redhat.com> <54248579.8030606@redhat.com> <87r3yzfl86.fsf@redhat.com> <54248CD1.8000801@redhat.com> <87eguzfju7.fsf@redhat.com> <54249203.3030607@redhat.com> X-URL: http://www.redhat.com Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:21:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <54249203.3030607@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:06:59 +0100") Message-ID: <87vbobe3yu.fsf@redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-09/txt/msg00754.txt.bz2 On Thursday, September 25 2014, Pedro Alves wrote: > I don't either. But I'd rather a user stuck on such a OS be able to > use a free debugger, than drive him towards a proprietary debugger. > That's part of how I got involved into GDB in the first place. I was > forced to used Windows at work. I worked around that by using Cygwin, > to be able to use the free tools I preferred. At the same time > I needed to build a tool that would run on Windows CE. So I worked on > the GNU toolchain in order to target that OS. Then I wanted to make Cygwin > GDB better too, because it was similar to CE, and I was using it > at work too. And then somehow I ended up working on GDB full > time. :-P It's a trap, I tells ya! Haha, thanks for sharing your experience :-). > The real point was that the user building GDB may have no control > over the system bits of the distro it is building GDB for (in this > case glibc's loader), just like when building for a proprietary OS, > even though GNU/Linux distros are based (mostly) on free sources. Yeah, that is a fair point, and it is very valid when we talk about things that might make GDB break badly when removed. But in this case, we are talking about a very specific Fedora/RHEL thing, which is itself intended to improve something (i.e., GDB will still work without it on old Fedora/RHEL systems), so I think most of the concerns don't apply here. -- Sergio GPG key ID: 0x65FC5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/