From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFA] partial-stab.h patch amendment
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:00:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010906230028.A9702@lucon.org>
References: <1010905224331.ZM6026@ocotillo.lan> <npheugkyqo.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com> <1010906205537.ZM8109@ocotillo.lan> <kevinb@cygnus.com> <1010906232048.ZM8395@ocotillo.lan>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00083.html

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:20:48PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> If you read H.J.'s message, you'll see that __strtol_internal appears
> in libdl.so.2 as a weak undefined symbol.  It got that way presumably
> through a bug somewhere else in the toolchain (linker perhaps?) which
> converted it from a weak defined symbol to a weak undefined symbol.
> Yet, in the process, the stabs entries related to this symbol weren't
> removed.  Thus we end up having stabs entries which describe an
> undefined symbol.

Is there a way to remove a stabs entry in this case?

> 
> I don't really expect any comments on this message, but I wanted
> write down what I know of the matter before moving on to something
> else...
> 

I tried your patch on gdb 5.1. It works for me. Can we have it in
gdb 5.1?

Thanks.


H.J.