[patch 2/2] iFort compat.: case insensitive symbols (PR 11313)

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Wed Nov 24 21:37:00 GMT 2010


Tom> Actually I was specifically thinking of just the separate debuginfo
Tom> case.  In this case wouldn't the primary objfile always have the
Tom> minsyms?

Joel> What if the primary objfile was completely stripped, though?

We could easily check for that when we read the separate debuginfo.

Jan> Whether .symtab (=ELF symbols=minimal symbols) is present in the primary
Jan> objfile or the separate debug info objfile depends on this switch.

Jan> For almost all the Fedora packages .symtab is in the separate debug
Jan> info file.  glibc (not sure if anything else) has an exception it
Jan> has .symtab still in the primary binary file.  (I do not agree much
Jan> with such exception myself.)

I think both files have .dynsym though.  And AFAIK we end up with two
copies of these minsyms.  One or the other seems unneeded.

Tom



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