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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org,
		amodra@bigpond.net.au
Subject: Re: [rfc, v2] Fix ELF synthetic symbol size bug (affects PPC64)
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071106214402.GA18867@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711062133.lA6LX4nq031372@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:33:04PM +0100, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Alan suggested a way to pass that information: have the udata.p
> member of the synthetic symbol point back to the full ELF symbol
> structure of the original symbol used to derive the synthetic
> symbol from.   The patch below implements this.
> 
> Tested (GDB) on powerpc64-linux, fixes another 12 FAILs on top
> of the ones already fixed by the original patch.
> 
> Is the bfd part OK?

The elf.c part of this does not make sense to me.  Why should we have
the same size as that symbol?  The @plt entry is only a couple of
instructions.  To figure out its size you need to ask the backend
plt_sym_val routine.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-06 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-05 20:14 [rfc] " Ulrich Weigand
2007-11-05 20:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-11-06 21:33 ` [rfc, v2] " Ulrich Weigand
2007-11-06 21:44   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]

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