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Re: Support for DDWARF-2 debug info? (on Cygwin)
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>, <dave at beermex dot com>, <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:57:36 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: 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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