[PATCH 2/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove read of .debug section

Simon Marchi
2026-01-08T19:36:39Z

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