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Re: [RFC/ia64-linux] pb with shared libraries when attaching to process


On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:59:52AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Eric Botcazou suggested that an address pointing to the .data section
> should never be some code because the .data section is not executable;
> So we could simply check the flags of our section, and if it doesn't
> have the CODE flag set, then assume it's a function descriptor.

I can imagine this breaking but it would require use of mprotect.
Your patch looks good to me.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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