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Re: [RFC] minimal symbols on mips-irix and overlapping CUs...


But Joel's case did have debugging information, I think - so just the
minsyms are missing?


Yes, that's right. And one interesting thing I did find: "nm" on
mips-irix dumps the symbol from the symbol table AND the dwarf-2
info...

What about the ".pdr" section?


I get the feeling that core GDB has another really useful table just beyond its fingertips - the unwind table - and that can be used to find things like map from a pc to the function start/end/name/...:

- PPC64 has a traceback table just past the end of the function and that can provide a pointer (tb_offset) back to the function's start

- For ia64, it must have similar (for that binary search to work)

- For MIPS there's this PDR section and it appears to have the function start as well.

Andrew



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