Re: [RFC]: win32-nat.c better handling of DLL relocation

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:52:09PM -0000, Raoul Gough wrote:
>win32-nat.c currently only passes the loaded address of the .text
>section into symbol_file_add, which means that any symbols from .data
>or .bss don't get fixed up properly. This patch fixes the problem by
>calculating the load addresses of all sections known to bfd.
>
>I recently posted a test case which demonstrates the relocation
>problem in the "coffread.c extension" thread (message ID
>avejk1$lv6$1@main.gmane.org, posted 7 Jan 2003 13:10:49 -0000). This
>showed that gdb 5.2.1 didn't handle any DLL symbol relocations. The
>current CVS version only handles the .text section. With this patch,
>it handles all sections correctly.
>
>Raoul Gough.

>2003-01-10  Raoul Gough  <RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk>
>
> 	* win32-nat.c(get_relocated_section_addrs): New function. Find
>	section load addresses for symbol handling in relocated DLLs.
>	(solib_symbols_add): Open a bfd and call get_relocated_section_addrs.

I took a quick glance.  Looks good.  Now we just need that pesky
assignment.

<idle musing>I wonder if there is some way to do all of this assignment stuff
electronically.  It seems silly that we still have to rely on paper for this
kind of thing.</idle musing>

cgf