Re: [RFA] MIPS_TEXT symbols should be associated to .text section?

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>]

Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello BFD maintainers,
> 
> Ping? This patch is only 8 days old, and I wouldn't send a reminder
> just a week after sending it, but GDB is completely broken without
> this patch (ie "break main; run" doesn't work)... Would somebody mind
> having a look at it and tell me if it is good or not?
[snip]
> > @@ -4192,6 +4192,20 @@ _bfd_mips_elf_symbol_processing (bfd *ab
> >        asym->section = bfd_und_section_ptr;
> >        break;
> >  
> > +    case SHN_MIPS_TEXT:
> > +      { 
> > +        asection *section = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, ".text");
> > +        if (section != NULL)
> > +          {
> > +            asym->section = section;
> > +            /* MIPS_TEXT is a bit special, the address is not an offset
> > +               to the base of the .text section.  So substract the section
> > +               base address to make it an offset.  */
> > +	    asym->value -= section->vma;
> > +          }
> > +        break;
> > +      }
> > +    
> >  #if 0 /* for SGI_COMPAT */
> >      case SHN_MIPS_TEXT:
> >        asym->section = mips_elf_text_section_ptr;

The last three lines in this patch suggest AFAICS to use
mips_elf_text_section_ptr instead of bfd_get_section_by_name,
and to make the test conditional on SGI_COMPAT. The SHN_MIPS_DATA
below should probably get handled similiarily.


Thiemo