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Re: time to workaround libc/13097 in fsf gdb?
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:35:08 -0700
- Subject: Re: time to workaround libc/13097 in fsf gdb?
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> I downloaded glibc 2.20 and tested it with gdb 7.8.
> Still an issue.
> [I just did a simple build, if there's a configure option
> that will fix things I didn't try one.]
> I think FSF gdb 7.8[.1?] (the latest) should work with FSF glibc 2.20
> (the latest).
Data point: Evidently people on Arch Linux are tripping over this, so
there are real users affected here.
They're also affected by another bug where we're not reading their
vdso properly and getting bfd error "File truncated".