From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove read of .debug section
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 14:33:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260108193507.553779-3-simon.marchi@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260108193507.553779-1-simon.marchi@efficios.com>
This is not used by anything.
Change-Id: Icc5e72b2f30521b8856db46f4d6cabf26f615b0b
---
gdb/xcoffread.c | 34 ----------------------------------
1 file changed, 34 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/xcoffread.c b/gdb/xcoffread.c
index d46b4eb23f3d..43d3cec2e49b 100644
--- a/gdb/xcoffread.c
+++ b/gdb/xcoffread.c
@@ -38,9 +38,6 @@
\f
struct xcoff_symfile_info
{
- /* Pointer to debug section. */
- char *debugsec = nullptr;
-
/* Pointer to the a.out symbol table. */
char *symtbl = nullptr;
@@ -300,37 +297,6 @@ xcoff_initial_scan (struct objfile *objfile, symfile_add_flags symfile_flags)
num_symbols = bfd_get_symcount (abfd); /* # of symbols */
symtab_offset = obj_sym_filepos (abfd); /* symbol table file offset */
- if (num_symbols > 0)
- {
- /* Read the .debug section, if present and if we're not ignoring
- it. */
- if (!(objfile->flags & OBJF_READNEVER))
- {
- struct bfd_section *secp;
- bfd_size_type length;
- bfd_byte *debugsec = NULL;
-
- secp = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, ".debug");
- if (secp)
- {
- length = bfd_get_section_alloc_size (abfd, secp);
- if (length)
- {
- debugsec
- = (bfd_byte *) obstack_alloc (&objfile->objfile_obstack,
- length);
-
- if (!bfd_get_full_section_contents (abfd, secp, &debugsec))
- {
- error (_("Error reading .debug section of `%s': %s"),
- name, bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
- }
- }
- }
- info->debugsec = (char *) debugsec;
- }
- }
-
/* Read the symbols. We keep them in core because we will want to
access them randomly in read_symbol*. */
val = bfd_seek (abfd, symtab_offset, SEEK_SET);
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-08 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-08 19:33 [PATCH 0/8] More xcoffread cleanups Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 1/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove name computation Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:32 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2026-01-08 20:32 ` [PATCH 2/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove read of .debug section Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 3/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove XCOFF_DATA macro Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:34 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 4/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove xcoff_symfile_info::{symtbl, symtbl_num_syms} Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:36 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 21:24 ` Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 22:17 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-09 2:05 ` Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 5/8] gdb/xcoffread: allocate symbol table using vector in scan_xcoff_symtab Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:37 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 6/8] gdb/xcoffread: simplify xcoff_secnum_to_sections Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:39 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 7/8] gdb/xcoffread: replace 2 switches with if Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:40 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 8/8] gdb/xcoffread: stylistic cleanup Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:41 ` Tom Tromey
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