fake symbols to aid debugging

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Tue Jul 29 04:16:00 GMT 2003


Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:11:07PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Would it be feasible for the linker to
> > generate a DWARF compilation unit for these stubs, and fill it with
> > DW_AT_trampoline markers?
> 
> Yes, I could do that.  Doesn't solve my disassembly problem though,
> does it?  Even if gdb is clever enough to rummage through dwarf info
> for calls via stubs, I'd like to have objdump -d print useful symbols.

Why not change objdump so that it either:
- understands appropriate bits of DWARF; or
- understands stubs?

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>



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