should gdb require '.text' and '.data' sections?

Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
Thu Apr 18 11:15:00 GMT 2002


josef ezra wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'm trying to debug a symbol file that has no '.text' section. Unlike 5.0
> version, the new SECT_OFF_TEXT(objfile) macro calls (no-return) internal
> error and prevent the read.
> 
> Should gdb work that way (requiring '.text' and '.data' sections)?
> 
> If not, can we consider the first sections flagged 'SEC_CODE'/'SEC_DATA' as
> substitutes? Or maybe better have a default 0/1 values (like 5.0)? Both
> should work in my case.

I agree, gdb should not require .text and .data.  For one thing, 
a simple embedded assembler program might have no initialized data.  
For another, those segments might be called something else.



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