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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Regression on prelinked-sepdebug-shlibs
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100106191608.GA28581@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100106180510.GA6748@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 07:05:10PM +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:38:55 +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > I think this is not correct: the separate debug file may have one section at
> > zero while the main may not.  In the above code, we do not consider wether
> > an offset is used.
> > 
> > I am not sure that this can happen with ELF however.

Sorry, I don't quite understand this.

> This has_section_at_zero feature is intended for embedded targets.  I only
> know has_section_at_zero can never happen for cases I am aware of.
> 
> IMHO embedded targets do not use the file-vs-memory offsets but not sure.
> Also the embedded targets probably do not use .linkonce/COMDAT - this is why
> this has_section_at_zero differentiator could work.

An embedded program can use either of these things.  The
linkonce/comdat issue is a constant problem, but this was the best
available heuristic.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-06 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-25 20:05 Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-04  9:50 ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-04 10:24   ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-04 11:54     ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-04 15:22 ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-04 18:10   ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-05 11:02     ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-05 16:15       ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-06 11:20         ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-06 16:38 ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-06 18:05   ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-06 19:16     ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2010-01-07 11:02       ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-07 11:10         ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-01-07 11:18           ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-07 13:42         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-01-07 14:21           ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-07 14:26             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-01-07 14:37               ` Tristan Gingold

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