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Re: bfd/elf64-sh64.c patch for partial string section merging support
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Jim Wilson <wilson at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:31:45 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: bfd/elf64-sh64.c patch for partial string section merging support
On 23 Oct 2002, Jim Wilson wrote:
> The sh64-elf port does not support string section merging. This showed up as
> a large number of gdb failures with -m5-64media on a toolchain here, because
> gdb found out-of-range DW_FORM_strp references in the DWARF2 debug info in
> almost every binary.
> I plan to check in the patch in a few days unless one of the sh maintainers
> wants to comment on it.
I'm not an SH maintainer (anymore) but I can make the general
comment that if possible, there should be a binutils-local
test-case, maybe sh64-local (if so, preferrably using
ld-sh/sh64/rd-sh64.exp) so this won't trivially break again.
brgds, H-P