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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 7.0 release process created

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
Cc: Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot med dot uc dot edu>, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:27:41 -0700
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 7.0 release process created
References: <announce.20090916221710.GK2362@adacore.com> <20090920025432.GA22104@bromo.med.uc.edu> <8ac60eac0909192050g256a1076r3e28fd0a8cfd7f41@mail.gmail.com> <20090920143231.GQ7961@adacore.com> <8ac60eac0909200802m45f2675epa6e56001af4b491@mail.gmail.com>

> The patch (I believe) actually solves a problem, not just suppresses
> complaints: without it find_pc_section may find a "random" .text
> section from foo.o, and things go downhill from there. With the patch,
> foo.o is not inserted into the section map, so find_pc_section returns
> correct .text section (from a.exe or foo.dylib), and everything else
> works.

My understand was that the sections from the .o objfiles was already
filtered out from the section map (after emitting the complaint).
So the debugger should still find the correct section.

-- 
Joel

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