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From: Jan Vrany <jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix various tests to use -no-pie linker flag when needed
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 09:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dbaccd25aae8bdf1cd96e59ae8f7c9be9cce7db.camel@fit.cvut.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a581ee534cabae20af92f6e47b2c9b08@polymtl.ca>

Hi, 

I'm sorry for a long delay, I've been very, very busy lately.
Hopefully I'd have more time for GDB now...


On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 23:18 +0100, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2018-09-07 21:43, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > > "Jan" == Jan Vrany <jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz> writes:
> > 
> > Jan> Various test use test code written in i385 / x86_64 assembly that 
> > cannot
> > Jan> be used to create PIE executables. Therefore compilation of test 
> > programs
> > Jan> failed on systems where the compiler default is to create PIE 
> > executable.
> > 
> > Jan> To fix this, force -no-pie linker flag.
> > 
> > I guess you're on an OS that enables PIE by default?
> 
> I know recent-ish Ubuntus do that, I don't know if it's a patch specific 
> to that distro or if it's the default value in gcc that changed.

Neither I know. I'm using Debian Buster which seems to have -no-pie 
by default too. 

> 
> > These tests don't seem to be linux- or gcc-specific.
> > Do you know how universal -no-pie is?  My worry is that this would fix
> > the test for some people but break it for others.
> > 

No, I don't know how universal -no-pie is. From what I have understood
from Simon (https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-08/msg00662.html),
out of the options available -no-pie is still the best bet. 

> > Tom
> 
> If needed, we could add a new option understood by gdb_compile that adds 
> the right flag to achieve the result of -no-pie.

Indeed we can. Tom, would that be OK with you? 

Best Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-14  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-28 19:37 Jan Vrany
2018-09-07 20:43 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-07 22:18   ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-14  9:59     ` Jan Vrany [this message]
2018-10-16 22:18       ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-17 13:55         ` Tom Tromey
2018-10-17 14:56           ` [PATCH v2] " Jan Vrany
2018-10-17 15:12             ` [PATCH v3] " Jan Vrany
2018-10-17 15:44               ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-17 15:53                 ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-17 19:33                   ` Jan Vrany
2018-12-13 15:21                   ` [PATCH] " Jan Vrany
2018-12-13 17:13                     ` Simon Marchi
2018-12-21 20:56                       ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-17 15:47         ` Pedro Alves
2018-10-17 15:51           ` Simon Marchi

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