Re: [gforth] Decompilation not working properly.

[Anton Ertl]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 09:33:46PM -0500, Stéphane Fillion wrote:
> >
> > This is probably due to
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/KernelHardening
> > #ptrace_Protection
> >
> > To check this, type
> >
> > cat /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope
> >
> > If this outputs 1, that is probably the cause of the problem.
> 
> 
> You were right. Thanks.
> 
> Is this issue unavoidable? Can a workaround be designed, by example by SEE
> displaying static disassemblies computed at compile time?

Our plan (for Gforth 1.0) is to link libopcodes (the decompiler that
gdb and objdump uses) directly into Gforth, avoiding the need to use
ptrace.  That is, if we can find our way through the libopcodes API.

- anton