From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: strip --strip-nondebug
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 13:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16096.38018.961095.469616@localhost.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34r33790p.fsf@redhat.com>
Nick Clifton writes:
> Hi Elena,
>
> > Hmm, step through symfile.c:find_separate_debug_file, if the problem
> > seems to be locating the file.
>
> The problem is find_separate_debug_file() calls get_debug_link_info()
> which looks for a section called ".gnu_debuglink" which is not present
> in the stripped executable.
>
> What is this section and how is it supposed to get into the stripped
> executable ?
The strip utility does it. BTW, I find it a bit silly that a non-gnu
utility decided to use the .gnu_debuglink name. Maybe you should call
it somethign different, and gdb can look for both names?
elena
>
> Cheers
> Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-06 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-05 15:57 Nick Clifton
2003-06-05 16:06 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-06-05 16:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-05 16:14 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-06-05 16:24 ` Elena Zannoni
2003-06-05 17:08 ` Nick Clifton
2003-06-05 19:19 ` Elena Zannoni
2003-06-06 11:17 ` Nick Clifton
2003-06-06 13:11 ` Elena Zannoni [this message]
2003-06-06 14:32 ` Nick Clifton
2003-06-06 14:51 ` Nick Clifton
2003-06-06 21:34 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-06-07 10:39 ` Nick Clifton
2003-06-07 15:37 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-06-05 18:29 ` Michael Snyder
2003-06-05 18:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-06-05 19:06 ` Michael Snyder
2003-06-05 19:13 ` Elena Zannoni
2003-06-05 19:47 ` Nick Clifton
2003-06-05 19:54 ` Kris Warkentin
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