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Re: Relocs against unalloced sections in shared libraries
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:09:38PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:50:51PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > But by its nature, debug info is describing local entities.
>
> Not true. All symbols in a header file get debug info.
> Those symbols may well be external to the DSO.
Well, OK, my statement was rather too sweeping. However, should we
care about such debug info _in a DSO_? How is debug info describing
non-local entities useful? Won't you have the info available from
the definition of such an entity, except if undefined? (Discounting
the case where the defining object was compiled without -g, which I
don't think we should worry about.)
I'd like to get this one nailed down, because if powerpc and alpha
ld are correct then a whole lot of other targets are broken.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre