linker relocation of debug information

Ian Lance Taylor ian@wasabisystems.com
Tue Jan 27 21:52:00 GMT 2004


Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:31:16PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > Jeff Baker <jbaker@qnx.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Does anyone remember when this behaviour was changed in the binutils?
> > 
> > Well, see this message I wrote a few years back for some more
> > background information.  Even at the time the situation was confused.
> >     http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/1999-q2/msg00046.html
> 
> Well, in reference to that specific confusion - I believe that GCC no
> longer generates debug information which includes the address of
> external symbols.

Actually, the confusion I meant was that different targets behaved in
different ways.

I don't personally care what happens with this.

Ian



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