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Re: [PATCH V5 4/5] Adaptation of siginfo fixup for the new bnd fields
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Walfred Tedeschi <walfred dot tedeschi at intel dot com>, eliz at gnu dot org, brobecker at adacore dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 10:31:36 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 4/5] Adaptation of siginfo fixup for the new bnd fields
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Walfred Tedeschi wrote:
On 01/28/2016 12:37 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 01/22/2016 02:54 PM, Walfred Tedeschi wrote:
>
>> Caveat: No support for MPX on x32.
>
> What would it take to support that?
> About your question on x32 and MPX.
> MPX does not support 32bit pointers in 64bit mode.
Ok, so IIUC, it's not a GDB limitation, or a limitation of this patch set.
It's really that x32 can't support MPX at all. Correct?
Thanks,
Pedro Alves