Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:29:06 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: ptrace single-stepping change breaks Wine |
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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > So it seems it did not work even before, the gdb-SIGTRAP stepping. In > 2.6.8 I get a straight segfault just for running it.
Ok, that at least means it's not a regression, although it may be that the altered behaviour is enough to make some program work/not-work depending on exactly what it is testing. My example is certainly not the only way to try to mess up a debugger.
I'm by no means 100% sure that we should encourage the kind of programming "skills" I showed with that example program, so in that sense this may not be worth worrying about. That said, I do hate the notion of having programs that are basically undebuggable, so from a QoI standpoint I'd really like to say that you can run my horrid little program under the debugger and see it work...
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