[PATCH] x86emu: improve single-step debugging

Kees Cook kees at outflux.net
Wed Nov 2 14:32:01 PDT 2011


Hi Guillem,

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 02:49:03AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 15:49:33 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > On 10/ 6/11 03:36 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> > >This allows for other consumers to do single-step decoding/emulation
> > >when using x86emu. Additionally adds a stand-alone Makefile for building
> > >out of tree, which is very handy for doing emulation debugging.
> > 
> > What ever happened to the plan to move it out to a separate library that
> > Xorg just depends on?   We have another user here who is currently just
> > copying the code from Xorg and would prefer to share a library with us.
> 
> I thought libx86 [0] was supposed to be just that.
> [0] <http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/libx86/>

So, until Xorg is linked against libx86, can my patch be applied to the
Xorg emulator? From what I can see it is where fixes keep landing.

Thanks,

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook                                            @outflux.net


More information about the xorg-devel mailing list