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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