[PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header.

Andi Kleen ak at suse.de
Tue May 1 02:25:55 EDT 2007


On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:26:50PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at in.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> 
> >> At least without a core file it is working on with gdb 6.4.
> >>
> >
> > This seems to be a problem with gdb 6.5. I transferred the dump to a
> > different machine having GNU gdb 6.4, and it works fine there.
> 
> Ok.  The difference between those two symbols didn't seem to make
> any sense, so a gdb bug makes sense.
> 
> Cool.  Then the patch is good. :)

It would still make any gdb 6.5 users unhappy. If no workaround can be found
I guess we'll need a CONFIG of some sort?

-Andi



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