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Re: [PATCH 0/3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: yao at codesourcery dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 21:36:12 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Trust readonly sections if target has memory protection
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 11:10:15 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: yao@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > > Perhaps a compromise: For the new feature to fail, it'd need an
> > > extremely ancient version of Windows, coupled with a bad program
> > > that writes outside of its memory area. How about we forgo the
> > > Windows 9x detection, and just enable the feature on Windows
> > > unconditionally? This removes the burden from Yao, who shouldn't
> > > be asked to do this work unless he wants to. Then, if someone
> > > believes it's necessary to turn the feature off by default on
> > > old versions of Windows, it should be easy for them to do so.
> >
> > Fine with me, but then why not enable this on all platforms?
>
> Not all platforms are in the particular situation I was describing.
Which platforms don't support memory protection of the kind we discuss
here?