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Re: gdb/770: ELF symbol files incorrectly read with respect to source line numbers
- From: Dan Towner <dant at picochip dot com>
- To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 2 Oct 2002 12:38:05 -0000
- Subject: Re: gdb/770: ELF symbol files incorrectly read with respect to source line numbers
- Reply-to: Dan Towner <dant at picochip dot com>
The following reply was made to PR gdb/770; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dan Towner <dant@picochip.com>
To: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com, nobody@sources.redhat.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: gdb/770: ELF symbol files incorrectly read with respect to source
line numbers
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 13:33:31 +0100
gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com wrote:
How can I cancel this bug report?
> >Category: gdb
> >Responsible: unassigned
> >Synopsis: ELF symbol files incorrectly read with respect to source line numbers
> >Arrival-Date: Mon Sep 30 06:38:04 PDT 2002
The problem lay in the Elf file generation. One of the offsets used to
compute the stabd information was incorrect. It appears that gdb relies
on this information being correct, while `objdump' used another method
of determining the information, and hence reported the correct
information.
Dan.
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