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From: "Neal E. Coombes" <nealc@trdlnk.com>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: dbxread.c:1771: internal-error: sect_index_data not initialized
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F6B0CDB.1010102@trdlnk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vt265jpiux4.fsf@zenia.home>

Jim Blandy wrote:
 >
 > Unfortunately, this revision isn't right.
 >
 > Falling back to the .bss section's offset when no .data offset is
 > available makes sense (sort of) when we're not really sure which
 > section contains the object whose address we're relocating.  If there
 > is no .data section, the object certainly isn't there, so it's a
 > decent guess that it belongs in .bss.
 >
 > But there are other cases where we know for sure that the symbol is in
 > the .data section, not the .bss section.  In those cases, if we have
 > no .data section offset, then GDB is in an inconsistent state, and
 > should crash.  It's not correct to fall back to the .bss section.

Thanks for the explanation.  I'll pass it on to my co-worker and rebuild 
our gdb!

Neal



  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-19 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-17 15:02 Neal E. Coombes
2003-09-17 17:54 ` Jim Blandy
2003-09-17 18:17   ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-17 20:16     ` Neal E. Coombes
2003-09-18 22:41       ` Jim Blandy
2003-09-19 14:04         ` Neal E. Coombes [this message]
2003-09-18 22:34     ` Jim Blandy
2003-09-18 22:57       ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-18 23:12         ` Jim Blandy
2003-09-19 19:45           ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-17 17:54 Michael Elizabeth Chastain

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