Re: How to handle 64bits stabs ?

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:

>>>> currently objdump -G (--stabs) can only display 32bits stabs.
>>>> However mach-o 64bits files have a 64bits
>>>> value field and therefore the output of objdump is bogus.
>>>>
>>>> How to deal with that ?  Should we make bfd_get_arch_size working on
>>>> mach-o and use this function ?
>>>
>>> You would have to restrict it to Mach-O.  Other 64-bit targets
>>> continue to use 32-bit stabs, which is arguably incorrect but is a
>>> backward compatibility issue.  So I think the right approach is going
>>> to be to add a new field to the bfd_target structure.  That is a
>>> little painful since you will have to modify all the existing
>>> declarations, but the runtime cost will be low.
>>
>> Ok.
>
> How about using bfd_get_flavour ?  Looks like it almost does the job.

Seems to me like a temporary hack that will break at some point in the
future.

Ian