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Re: [patch 00/15] PIE: Position Independent Executable support

Hi,

checked-in the NEWS part.


Thanks,
Jan


http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2010-01/msg00128.html

--- src/gdb/ChangeLog	2010/01/14 21:20:09	1.11252
+++ src/gdb/ChangeLog	2010/01/14 21:24:04	1.11253
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 2010-01-14  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+	    Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+	* NEWS: Document the PIE support.
+
+2010-01-14  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
 
 	* linux-tdep.c: Remove includes gdbcore.h, observer.h and elf-bfd.h.
 	(check_is_pie_binary, _initialize_linux_tdep): Remove.
--- src/gdb/NEWS	2010/01/11 19:29:12	1.348
+++ src/gdb/NEWS	2010/01/14 21:24:05	1.349
@@ -189,6 +189,11 @@
   - GDB is now able to backtrace through the signal handler for
     non-threaded programs.
 
+PIE (Position Independent Executable) programs debugging is now supported.
+This includes debugging execution of PIC (Position Independent Code) shared
+libraries although for that, it should be possible to run such libraries as an
+executable program.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 7.0
 
 * GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation.  Applications that
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