From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt>,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org, insight@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: syms_from_objfile() warnings and win32-nat.c IO redirection (Was: suppress annoying warnings about cygwin1.dbg)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071030011953.GA28693@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071029123318.GA16009@caradoc.them.org>
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:33:18AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:03:08AM +0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> Can anyone point me into why the non-debug sections are
>> preserved (as NOBITS) in the seperate debug file?
>> Could it be so support the case where the section headers
>> were stripped in the main file?
>> To help if there are relocs against section symbols in
>> the debug info? Not sure if that makes sense in
>> a NOBITS section.
>> Or, are they added so to keep tools that currently expect
>> them there happy?
>
>I don't think you can do without them, because you have a symbol table
>in the separate file; the symbol table needs to say which section each
>symbol is defined in. But I'm just extrapolating this from what I
>know about ELF. What I know about PE/COFF wouldn't fill a teacup.
It should be equivalent in PE/COFF, IIRC.
cgf
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2007-05-02 15:19 ` [patch ping] suppress annoying warnings about cygwin1.dbg Brian Dessent
2007-06-25 23:20 ` [patch ping^2] " Brian Dessent
2007-06-25 23:40 ` Pedro Alves
2007-06-25 23:52 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-26 0:59 ` Brian Dessent
2007-06-26 7:37 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-28 6:11 ` syms_from_objfile() warnings and win32-nat.c IO redirection (Was: suppress annoying warnings about cygwin1.dbg) Brian Dessent
2007-06-28 12:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-11 20:26 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-13 0:09 ` Brian Dessent
2007-10-13 1:44 ` Pedro Alves
2007-10-13 2:49 ` Brian Dessent
2007-10-13 3:33 ` Pedro Alves
2007-10-13 6:03 ` Brian Dessent
2007-10-24 19:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-29 3:06 ` Pedro Alves
2007-10-29 12:33 ` Pedro Alves
2007-10-29 12:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-29 22:54 ` Pedro Alves
2007-10-30 4:05 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-10-30 9:02 ` Pedro Alves
2007-10-30 1:27 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2007-11-08 23:56 ` Pedro Alves
2007-11-09 1:35 ` Pedro Alves
2007-11-09 13:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-11-09 13:59 ` Pedro Alves
2007-11-09 13:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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