gdb and PIE binaries

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Debian is pushing more and more PIE builds, so that address
randomization can be done. However, on GNU/Hurd, gdb can't work with
core files from processes running PIE programs, so one has to pass
CFLAGS=-no-pie etc. to be able to debug programs, it'll become more and
more problematic.

AIUI, what gdb misses is simply the name of the files being mapped:
since the mappings may be random, it can't invent the file names.  It
has been also raised several times that it'd be nice that running vminfo
$pid (and /proc/$pid/maps) would show file names. AIUI, it'd be a matter
of adding a char[] field to struct vm_object inside mach, that the
creator of the VM object would set to whatever it seems fit, here the
file name.

What do people think about it?  Could somebody have a look at
implementing it?

Samuel