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Re: Commited patch for elf*-sparc.c (was binutils: "unexpected reloc type 0x17" on sparc)
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Commited patch for elf*-sparc.c (was binutils: "unexpected reloc type 0x17" on sparc)
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:20:39 -0700
- Cc: davem at redhat dot com, hjl at lucon dot org, kloczek at rudy dot mif dot pg dot gda dot pl, libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:04:23PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > For dwarf2 sections, gdb _should_ use the reloc sections.
>
> What for?
Because otherwise gdb doesn't know what the address for a given
symbol should be. All it has is a big fat 0 because the symbol
was resolved by ld to some external DSO.
GDB should take the .rela.debug_* sections and apply them to it's
local copy of .debug_info using the same rules used by ld.so.
r~