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Re: [PATCH] Testsuite: Remove pie from trace tests
- From: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- To: Alan Hayward <Alan dot Hayward at arm dot com>
- Cc: "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, nd <nd at arm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:22:56 -0600
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Testsuite: Remove pie from trace tests
- References: <20190410122539.91815-1-alan.hayward@arm.com>
>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com> writes:
Alan> Ubuntu/Debian defaults PIE to enabled. This causes the trace tests
Alan> to fall over due to variables being returned as "unavailable". The
Alan> tests were never designed to work with pie.
This seems strange to me -- I would not expect PIE to affect the trace
functionality. I think it would be better to understand exactly why
this is happening. Maybe the answer would still be to disable the
tests, but if so then we could have a reason attached to it.
Tom