Fix powerpc64-linux inferior function calls
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Mon Oct 3 01:04:00 GMT 2005
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:05:06AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:48:34PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > I don't remember precisely... ah, here it is. See elf_symtab_read.
> >
> > if (sym->flags & BSF_FILE)
> > ...
> > else if (sym->flags & BSF_SECTION_SYM)
> > ...
> > else if (sym->flags & (BSF_GLOBAL | BSF_LOCAL | BSF_WEAK))
> >
> > They won't be recorded as symbols if they have none of these bits set.
> > Do you want to change BFD to always create them as BSF_GLOBAL?
>
> I think the symbols are OK as is. _bfd_elf_get_synthetic_symtab has
>
> *s = **p->sym_ptr_ptr;
> s->section = plt;
> s->value = addr - plt->vma;
> s->name = names;
>
> ie. flags will be set from the destination sym for synthetic plt syms,
> making the synthetic sym BSF_GLOBAL or BSF_LOCAL. The ppc64 code does
> similarly. So I think your gdb patch should simply leave the synthetic
> sym flags unchanged.
Well, I'm 100% positive that it didn't work without that. Has this
changed recently?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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