From: "Paul N. Hilfinger" <hilfingr@otisco.mckusick.com>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: don't read coff line number unless we have symbols too
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206241932.MAA19971@otisco.McKusick.COM> (raw)
Jim Blandy wrote :
>
> Ping to the COFF maintainer: this patch needs review.
>
> Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > 2002-03-06 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
> >
> > * coffread.c (coff_symfile_read): Don't try to read the line
> > number table from disk if the image file doesn't have a symbol
> > table; we'll never actually look at the info anyway, and Windows
> > ships DLL's with bogus file offsets for the line number data.
But apparently, on Interix, you can get files with valid line numbers and
no symbols when all the .o's come from VC and are linked by ld. So the
line-number info is perhaps not entirely useless. Is this change a
space-saving move, or a fix for a more serious problem?
Paul
next reply other threads:[~2002-06-24 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-24 12:32 Paul N. Hilfinger [this message]
2002-06-26 12:57 ` Jim Blandy
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2002-06-24 19:30 Paul N. Hilfinger
2002-06-25 15:07 ` Jim Blandy
2002-03-06 15:58 Jim Blandy
2002-06-20 11:26 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-20 11:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-20 13:47 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-24 5:57 ` Philippe De Muyter
2002-06-24 12:10 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-06-25 15:03 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-26 1:03 ` Philippe De Muyter
2002-06-26 11:22 ` Jim Blandy
2002-08-21 22:52 ` Jim Blandy
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