From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc/rft] [3/3] Remove stabs target macros: SOFUN_ADDRESS_MAYBE_MISSING
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubqb1jt2f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710142013.l9EKDNaT007511@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> (uweigand@de.ibm.com)
> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:13:23 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> Would the following wording for the SOFUN_ADDRESS_MAYBE_MISSING change
> be OK?
Yes, but...
> +In this case, @value{GDBN} assumes two things:
> +
> +@itemize @bullet
> +@item
> +@code{N_FUN} stabs have an address of zero. Instead, you should find the
> +addresses where the function starts by taking the function name from the
> +stab, and then looking that up in the minsyms (the linker/assembler symbol
> +table). In other words, the stab has the name, and the linker/assembler
> +symbol table is the only place that carries the address.
I'm confused by the "Instead" thing: instead of what? instead of using
the (otherwise non-zero) address of N_FUN?
Otherwise, it looks okay. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-14 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-05 18:06 Ulrich Weigand
2007-10-06 7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-08 11:19 ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-10-08 23:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-09 19:55 ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-10-09 23:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-14 20:32 ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-10-14 22:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-10-15 14:10 ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-10-15 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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