[RFA] Relocate debug information in object files (e.g. add-symbol-file) [take 2]
Elena Zannoni
ezannoni@redhat.com
Sat Feb 1 01:08:00 GMT 2003
David Carlton writes:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:47:57 -0500, Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> said:
>
> >> I haven't looked at it at all closely; but dwarf2_read_section (and
> >> hence symfile_relocate_debug_section) is getting passed a NULL
> >> section from this part of dwarf2_build_psymtabs:
> >>
> >> if (dwarf_ranges_offset)
> >> dwarf_ranges_buffer = dwarf2_read_section (objfile,
> >> dwarf_ranges_offset,
> >> dwarf_ranges_size,
> >> dwarf_ranges_section);
> >> else
> >> dwarf_ranges_buffer = NULL;
> >>
>
> > It's odd, if the dwarf_ranges_offset is zero, the call shouldn't be made.
> > Maybe something is trashing the stack?
>
> > What gcc did you use? I tried with 2.96 (from RHL 7.2) and didn't see
> > the error.
>
> Did you specify DWARF 2? I saw this on 3.1.
>
Doh. right, I keep forgetting I am still using stabs. I definitely
need to upgrade my machine.
> I've found the problem, though: nobody seems to be setting
> dwarf_ranges_section! Patch enclosed below; I'm running it through
> the testsuite, and I'll commit it as obvious if it cures the problem.
>
Thanks, if it works, go ahead.
elena
> David Carlton
> carlton@math.stanford.edu
>
> 2003-01-31 David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>
>
> * dwarf2read.c (dwarf2_locate_sections): Set
> dwarf_ranges_section.
>
> Index: dwarf2read.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/dwarf2read.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.81
> diff -u -p -r1.81 dwarf2read.c
> --- dwarf2read.c 31 Jan 2003 19:22:18 -0000 1.81
> +++ dwarf2read.c 1 Feb 2003 00:57:49 -0000
> @@ -1002,6 +1002,7 @@ dwarf2_locate_sections (bfd *ignore_abfd
> {
> dwarf_ranges_offset = sectp->filepos;
> dwarf_ranges_size = bfd_get_section_size_before_reloc (sectp);
> + dwarf_ranges_section = sectp;
> }
> }
>
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