From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1295 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2011 16:47:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 1178 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Mar 2011 16:47:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from toast.topped-with-meat.com (HELO topped-with-meat.com) (168.75.111.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:47:39 +0000 Received: by topped-with-meat.com (Postfix, from userid 5281) id 716252C1B1; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:47:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: elfutils-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [2/3, ppc64, elfutils patch] eu-strip vs. func addresses for GDB inferior calls In-Reply-To: Jan Kratochvil's message of Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:29:42 +0100 <20110323152942.GA13640@host1.jankratochvil.net> References: <20110323152942.GA13640@host1.jankratochvil.net> Message-Id: <20110323164736.716252C1B1@topped-with-meat.com> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:16:00 -0000 X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=K6VZ71qI c=1 sm=1 a=cUGXokloGqsA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=J4H2NNmfdoOegFfaFd0A:9 a=ZWsP3eLQolPGitf0XO8nFakOTYQA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=WkljmVdYkabdwxfqvArNOQ==:117 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: 2011-03/txt/msg01033.txt.bz2 What's the rationale for including the .opd section in the .debug file? It is really just like any other text or data. Why can't you use the symbols from the .debug file and read the data from the main file just like you do for "p initialized_variable" or "disas function" without an inferior? Thanks, Roland