From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32308 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2008 08:53:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 32299 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Jan 2008 08:53:44 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (HELO wa-out-1112.google.com) (209.85.146.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:53:13 +0000 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id l35so2929811waf.12 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:53:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.125.2 with SMTP id x2mr3056315wac.119.1200819191504; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:53:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.57.14 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:53:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <585a84dc0801200053g753a2106ua07360dce0dd6719@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:53:00 -0000 From: "Fabio Dell'Aria" To: "GDB Mailinglist" Subject: Debugging Information in Separate Files MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-01/txt/msg00196.txt.bz2 Hi to all, reading the GDB manual at chapter 15.2 "Debugging Information in Separate Files" (at http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_16.html#SEC156 ) I'm developing a software able to read the "debug link"section into the executable file. The manual tell to check for the ".gnu_debuglink" section into the executable file, but when I check a Win32 EXE file I found that the "debug link" section is named "/4", why? PS: I know that a Win32 EXE file cannot contains sections with name over 8 bytes. Can someone help me, please? -- Best regards... Fabio Dell'Aria.