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authorJan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>2010-01-14 21:24:05 +0000
committerJan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>2010-01-14 21:24:05 +0000
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* NEWS: Document the PIE support.
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2010-01-14 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+ Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+ * NEWS: Document the PIE support.
+
+2010-01-14 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* linux-tdep.c: Remove includes gdbcore.h, observer.h and elf-bfd.h.
(check_is_pie_binary, _initialize_linux_tdep): Remove.
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
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@@ -189,6 +189,11 @@ much more reliable. In particular:
- GDB is now able to backtrace through the signal handler for
non-threaded programs.
+PIE (Position Independent Executable) programs debugging is now supported.
+This includes debugging execution of PIC (Position Independent Code) shared
+libraries although for that, it should be possible to run such libraries as an
+executable program.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.0
* GDB now has an interface for JIT compilation. Applications that