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Re: [PATCH 0/3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 05:59:58 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection
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- References: <1378432920-7731-1-git-send-email-yao at codesourcery dot com>
> This patch series only teach GDB to trust readonly sections on
> GNU/Linux targets. Some ancient Windows targets don't have memory
> protection, so we can't let GDB to rust readoly sections on mingw
> and cygwin target.
Do you know which ancient versions of Windows are we talking about?
If known, we could document that somewhere in the code, allowing us
to also enable it on Windows when we decide to stop supporting those
versions.
--
Joel