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Re: [PATCH] Re: Section .debug_info in object file
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:54:34PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:03:03PM +0300, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> > * dwarf2dbg.c (out_debug_abbrev): Add support for the DW_AT_name field.
> > (out_debug_info): Likewise.
>
> I suppose we could do something like this.
>
> But it seems to me that this is a gdb bug. The complete file+line
> mapping is available in .debug_line. What purpose does the AT_name
> field of the compilation unit serve?
Maybe gdb can grab the info from .debug_line, but still gcc uses
DW_AT_name for (every) C source file and this conflicts with gas which
skips this field (readelf, as I wrote, produces garbage).
Elias
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