Linux/ppc failure

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Thu Oct 3 06:57:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:22:23AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:56:16AM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > There are other consumers too; but doing the change would mean we have again
> > requirement - objects built with bintuls 2.14+ need gdb 5.2+ (well, we had
> > one already for DW_FORM_strp, I know).
> 
> Why?  We've emitted .rela.debug_info on alpha forever.

GDB has never consumed it, however.  So if it worked, it probably
worked by emitting mostly section relocations; GDB fixes up the section
offsets itself.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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