[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] Add process launch --enable-aslr option, tweak handling of flag

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Tue Aug 19 06:24:24 PDT 2014


On 18 August 2014 17:43,  <jingham at apple.com> wrote:
> The logic behind the name is that it's not as though the debugger is able to turn aslr on on a system that doesn't have it - so "-aslr on/true/yes" doesn't make sense - but rather the debugger is running on a system with ASLR, in which case the question is whether the debugger should disable it or not for this launch.  So --disable-aslr true/false is answering the question "should I disable aslr.

I suppose that's fair, and GDB does the same ("set
disable-randomization off").  Despite the double negative being
awkward I guess it's reasonable for ASLR.




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