From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>,
Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>,
David B Anderson <davea@quasar.engr.sgi.com>,
gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Why does mips define elf_backend_sign_extend_vma to true?
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 12:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B72E31C.6050405@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010808090249.A28467@lucon.org>
> There is a bug but the underlying problem is the oposite of what you
>> claim. Something is breaking that simple always sign-extend rule
>> (forgetting to sign extend something) and, as a consequence, the symbol
>> lookup is failing.
>>
>
>
> I am willing to buy it. The immediate problem is in
>
> struct obj_section *
> find_pc_sect_section (CORE_ADDR pc, struct sec *section)
> {
> struct obj_section *s;
> struct objfile *objfile;
Ah, now your getting it! :-)
In the bad old days, one developer would decide that the PC was wrong,
and a second would decide that the s->endaddr was wrong. They would
then fix/test their local cases and commit their changes. Only to find
that their target was still broken .... :-/
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-09 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-07 20:27 David B Anderson
2001-08-07 22:04 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-07 22:46 ` Richard Henderson
2001-08-07 23:21 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-08 0:50 ` Richard Henderson
2001-08-08 1:09 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-08-08 7:29 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-08 7:50 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-08 8:03 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-08 8:18 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-08-08 9:02 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-08 9:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-08-08 10:02 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-08 11:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-08-08 11:08 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-09 12:23 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-08-08 9:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-08-08 9:52 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-10 0:47 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
[not found] <20010807182459.A15252@lucon.org>
[not found] ` <20010807183933.A15425@lucon.org>
[not found] ` <3B709900.3000502@cygnus.com>
[not found] ` <20010807184504.A15571@lucon.org>
2001-08-07 18:52 ` H . J . Lu
2001-08-07 18:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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