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Re: Support for DDWARF-2 debug info? (on Cygwin)


Thanks for the response.  I came to that ugly conclusion yesterday.

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Richard Henderson wrote:

> No, dwarf specifies a section-relative address.  The issue is that,
> with the exception of IA-64, no target has section-relative relocations.
> So instead we force the VMA to zero such that the VMA address and
> the section offset are identical.
>
> If you cannot do this with PE, then you have to add new relocs.
> There's no other way around it.
>

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