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Re: elf.c special_sections: missing .debug_<dwarf> sections?
Alan Modra writes:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 12:19:40PM -0700, dje@google.com wrote:
> > static const struct bfd_elf_special_section special_sections_d[] =
> [snip]
> > There's a whole lot more DWARF sections than just those ones.
>
> My recollection is that this code was invented to cover for versions
> of gcc that emitted .section directives without specifying section
> type and attributes. So you really only need to add entries here if
> some compiler emits bare .section directives against the other dwarf
> sections, or you'd like to help out user asm.
Ok to check in?
2012-10-08 Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
* elf.c (special_sections_d): Add comment.
Index: elf.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/bfd/elf.c,v
retrieving revision 1.571
diff -u -p -r1.571 elf.c
--- elf.c 7 Oct 2012 23:59:26 -0000 1.571
+++ elf.c 8 Oct 2012 16:46:02 -0000
@@ -2061,6 +2064,9 @@ static const struct bfd_elf_special_sect
{
{ STRING_COMMA_LEN (".data"), -2, SHT_PROGBITS, SHF_ALLOC + SHF_WRITE },
{ STRING_COMMA_LEN (".data1"), 0, SHT_PROGBITS, SHF_ALLOC + SHF_WRITE },
+ /* There are more DWARF sections than these, but they needn't be added here
+ unless you have to cope with broken compilers that don't emit section
+ attributes or you want to help the user writing assembler. */
{ STRING_COMMA_LEN (".debug"), 0, SHT_PROGBITS, 0 },
{ STRING_COMMA_LEN (".debug_line"), 0, SHT_PROGBITS, 0 },
{ STRING_COMMA_LEN (".debug_info"), 0, SHT_PROGBITS, 0 },