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From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
Cc: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: Disable address space randomization for a test
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f22d448fe232b344e28713d06157a6fe@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180730190155.GF3155@embecosm.com>

On 2018-07-30 15:01, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>> Does that turn off address randomization?  The keyword implies the
>> opposite (double negative, so "disable... off" means "turn on").
> 
> That's a very good question... now I just have to figure out why my
> incorrect patch fixed the problem I was seeing.... watch this space...

GDB usually disables address randomization by default, so I was also 
wondering why this would be needed.  Do you have a scenario where GDB 
doesn't disable it by default?

Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-30 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-30 18:50 Andrew Burgess
2018-07-30 18:56 ` Paul Koning
2018-07-30 19:02   ` Andrew Burgess
2018-07-30 19:49     ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2018-07-31 12:47       ` Andrew Burgess
2018-07-31 13:32         ` Simon Marchi
2018-07-31 14:23   ` Tom Tromey

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