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| author | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2021-12-20 08:41:55 -0300 |
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| committer | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2022-01-06 07:59:49 -0300 |
| commit | 65ccd641bacea33be23d51da737c2de7543d0f5e (patch) | |
| tree | a3dbd16426b4a51dcb8450ede9d47c5a90e58a66 /NEWS | |
| parent | c1fc366ec9e78e17ad3e2ecdb4c4cc662decc32b (diff) | |
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debug: Remove catchsegv and libSegfault (BZ #14913)
Trapping SIGSEGV within the process is error-prone, adds security issues, and modern analysis design tends to happen out of the process (either by attaching a debugger or by post-mortem analysis). The libSegfault also has some design problems, it uses non async-signal-safe function (backtrace) on signal handler. There are multiple alternatives if users do want to use similar functionality, such as sigsegv gnulib module or libsegfault.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1b7a64d654..eb68bb1651 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the toolchain and architecture and enables it if available. +* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have + been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for + catching coredumps and backtraces. + Changes to build and runtime requirements: [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here] |