From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24139 invoked by alias); 16 May 2008 15:58:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 24080 invoked by uid 22791); 16 May 2008 15:58:37 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 May 2008 15:58:20 +0000 Received: (qmail 16039 invoked from network); 16 May 2008 15:58:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando.local) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 16 May 2008 15:58:18 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [rfc] Fix problem with (maybe) non-relocated .opd section on =?iso-8859-1?q?=09powerpc64-linux?= Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 20:35:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Ulrich Weigand References: <20080515182133.GA12681@caradoc.them.org> <200805161309.m4GD9WMC007662@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <20080516145104.GA26626@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20080516145104.GA26626@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805161658.14357.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg00512.txt.bz2 A Friday 16 May 2008 15:51:04, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:09:32PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote: > > ANOFFSET is also a obj_section thing, but we have target sections > > in the convert_from_func_ptr callback ... > > > > Why do we need to keep section data in both the target and the > > objfile? > > Nowadays, I don't think we do. Pedro has a patch to remove some of > it, but I think we could go even further - probably by eliminating > 99% of the distinction between exec-file and symbol-file. Not all of > it, since some is still clearly useful. Hmmm, I'll post my dormant patch as an RFC in a sec, as a new thread. -- Pedro Alves