Re: Why does mips define elf_backend_sign_extend_vma to true?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:52:09PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> FYI, some prorgams using bfd are broken on Linux/mips because of this: nm,
> objdump and gdb. In gdb
> 
> # gdb vmlinux
> ...
> (gdb) list printk
> 1874
> 1875    static void __exit packet_exit(void)
> 1876    {
> 1877            remove_proc_entry("net/packet", 0);
> 1878            unregister_netdevice_notifier(&packet_netdev_notifier);
> 1879            sock_unregister(PF_PACKET);
> 1880            return;
> 1881    }
> 1882
> 1883    static int __init packet_init(void)

Maybe off in your tools land.  What debug format?  What patches?  What
GDB version?

I know there's something wrong with DWARF2 yet.  Stabs works perfectly
well.

I also can't see how BFD chooses to display adddresses affecting the
ABI in any way.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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