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[RFA] coffread.c: support dwarf2 info
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- Subject: [RFA] coffread.c: support dwarf2 info
- From: "Mark E." <snowball3 at bigfoot dot com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:07:50 -0400
Hello folks,
A few months ago I successfully added coff support for dwarf2 info to
binutils so djgpp debuggers could use it. And the new version of gcc has been
configured to generate dwarf2 info. GDB just needs a small change to (almost)
complete the chain.
I've altered coffread.c to read in dwarf2 info just like in elfread.c. Please
consider commiting the following patch:
gdb/Changelog
2001-06-23 Mark Elbrecht <snowball@bigfoot.com>
* coffread.c (coff_symfile_read): Parse DWARF2 info if present.
*** coffread.c.orig Tue May 29 06:45:10 2001
--- coffread.c Fri Jun 22 17:02:56 2001
*************** coff_symfile_read (struct objfile *objfi
*** 689,694 ****
--- 689,699 ----
info->stabsects,
info->stabstrsect->filepos, stabstrsize);
}
+ if (dwarf2_has_info (abfd))
+ {
+ /* DWARF 2 sections */
+ dwarf2_build_psymtabs (objfile, mainline);
+ }
do_cleanups (back_to);
}
After that, only one obstacle remains. The dwarf2 reader uses
'bfd_get_sign_extended_vma' from the bfd library. For whatever reason, that
function only works with the elf format. But that's not a program that you
folks can fix since it's in the bfd library. After I hacked it to return a
legit value, I was able to set breakpoints and step through programs
containing dwarf2 info.
Mark