Minimal symbols and gdb's two-stage symbol reading
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@cygnus.com
Fri Nov 24 03:30:00 GMT 2000
Orjan Friberg wrote:
>
> Would it be safe to rely on an absolute global symbol being read into
> the minimal symbol table with the initial 'file' command (without using
> the '-readnow' option) for an a.out target? From looking at
> read_dbx_symtab it wasn't clear to me what happens.
>
> As discussed in a previous thread, I will use the symbol as an ABI
> indicator, and I'm just wondering if gdb's two-stage symbol reading
> could interfere with my intentions (i.e., the symbol not being there yet
> when I want it to).
If I'm understanding things correct then I think Kevin's suggestion is
preferable to PeterSs.
The arch_init() function shouldn't be relying on global state. Rather
it should only be looking to its immediate parameters for information.
Andrew
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