Re: How to handle 64bits stabs ?

[Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>]

On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Tristan Gingold wrote:

> On Sep 3, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> > 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.