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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Frederic RISS <frederic.riss@st.com>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>,
		Steven Johnson <sjohnson@sakuraindustries.com>,
		gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Problems with startup code symbols (Copious warnings)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060620122112.GA20079@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150704956.2480.65.camel@crx549.cro.st.com>

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:15:56AM +0200, Frederic RISS wrote:
> What about looking at section VMAs? If one loadable section has a VMA of
> 0 then we can't discard debug info with low_pc == 0. If no section lives
> at address 0 then low_pc == 0  implies that the relocations for this
> info couldn't be applied because the code has vanished.
> I'm sure I missed somethnig in the general case, but I've added
> something like this as a post-load pass in a target_so_ops I implemented
> some time ago and it worked well.

The problem is that this only works for binaries which _either_ use
linkonce sections or code at zero.  A binary with both would still not
work very well.

Is that an improvement?  I guess so.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-20 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-08  7:23 Steven Johnson
2006-06-08  9:06 ` Jim Blandy
2006-06-08 12:25   ` Steven Johnson
2006-06-08 23:10     ` Steven Johnson
2006-06-15  0:12     ` Jim Blandy
2006-06-15  7:33       ` Jim Blandy
2006-06-19  9:36         ` Frederic RISS
2006-06-20 12:23           ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-06-20 12:33             ` Frederic RISS
2006-06-20 12:56               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-20 13:09                 ` Frederic RISS
2006-06-20 20:17                   ` Steven Johnson
2006-06-20 23:35                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-21  8:54                       ` Frederic RISS
2006-06-21 14:44                         ` Steven Johnson
2006-06-21 15:28                         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-19 10:00         ` Steven Johnson

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