From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
gdb@sourceware.org, Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>,
binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: "gdb vmlinux" gives wrong symbol addresses
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060821015430.GA4615@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060821013829.GA20576@bubble.grove.modra.org>
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:08:29AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> I think that for ET_EXEC and ET_DYN gdb should ignore relocs that use
> the normal symbol table. Sane ELF targets will have dynamic reloc
> section(s) with sh_link pointing at a symtab section with sh_type of
> SHT_DYNSYM. --emit-relocs creates reloc sections with sh_link pointing
> at a symtab section with sh_type of SHT_SYMTAB.
This amounts to always ignoring relocations; GDB only uses relocations
for debug sections, which will never point at SHT_DYNSYM (I don't
think?).
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-21 1:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-18 18:38 Vivek Goyal
2006-08-18 18:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-18 19:15 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-08-21 1:38 ` Alan Modra
2006-08-21 1:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-08-21 3:24 ` Alan Modra
2006-08-23 17:33 ` Jan Kratochvil
2006-08-23 18:31 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-08-23 18:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-21 15:15 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-08-21 15:25 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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