From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6805 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2002 19:32:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 6798 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2002 19:32:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO otisco.McKusick.COM) (209.31.233.190) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Jun 2002 19:32:44 -0000 Received: (from hilfingr@localhost) by otisco.McKusick.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA19971; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:32:37 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:32:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200206241932.MAA19971@otisco.McKusick.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: hilfingr set sender to hilfingr@otisco.mckusick.com using -f From: "Paul N. Hilfinger" To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: don't read coff line number unless we have symbols too Reply-to: Hilfinger@otisco.mckusick.com X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg00492.txt.bz2 Jim Blandy wrote : > > Ping to the COFF maintainer: this patch needs review. > > Jim Blandy writes: > > > 2002-03-06 Jim Blandy > > > > * 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