From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] iFort compat.: case insensitive symbols (PR 11313)
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m362vmxv1w.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101124200747.GC2634@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:07:47 -0800")
Tom> Actually I was specifically thinking of just the separate debuginfo
Tom> case. In this case wouldn't the primary objfile always have the
Tom> minsyms?
Joel> What if the primary objfile was completely stripped, though?
We could easily check for that when we read the separate debuginfo.
Jan> Whether .symtab (=ELF symbols=minimal symbols) is present in the primary
Jan> objfile or the separate debug info objfile depends on this switch.
Jan> For almost all the Fedora packages .symtab is in the separate debug
Jan> info file. glibc (not sure if anything else) has an exception it
Jan> has .symtab still in the primary binary file. (I do not agree much
Jan> with such exception myself.)
I think both files have .dynsym though. And AFAIK we end up with two
copies of these minsyms. One or the other seems unneeded.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-24 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-07 3:50 Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-08 16:36 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-08 17:02 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-08 18:31 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-22 3:54 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-22 18:54 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-22 19:19 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-22 19:30 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-22 19:44 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-22 19:57 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-24 18:53 ` Tom Tromey
2010-11-24 19:22 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-24 20:01 ` Tom Tromey
2010-11-24 20:08 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-24 21:37 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-11-24 21:45 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-24 21:55 ` Tom Tromey
2010-11-24 20:17 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-24 20:31 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-11-24 20:58 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-04-08 17:59 ` obsolete: " Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-08 17:18 ` Pierre Muller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-07 3:50 [patch 1/2] Code cleanup: New init_one_comp_unit Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-12 18:36 ` Tom Tromey
2010-11-12 18:43 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-12 18:46 ` Tom Tromey
2010-11-16 4:37 ` Jan Kratochvil
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