[9/10] RFC: remove general_symbol_info::obj_section
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Tue Apr 9 11:29:00 GMT 2013
>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>> * stabsread.c was setting the symbol's section. However, this caused
>> some test failures on HPPA. It seemed better to me not to set the
>> section and to let fixup_section do its work.
Pedro> Do you recall specifically why that caused failures? I'm curious
Pedro> why that wasn't a problem before this series.
I'm afraid I don't remember.
>> I'm not really sure what to do here. I could further change all the
>> symbol readers not to do relocation at read time. However, I think
>> that is pretty hard. Anybody have a better idea?
Pedro> Nope. But this mystifies me too. Why wasn't the fallback
Pedro> necessary before? Ah, it seems before we'd just happen to end up
Pedro> with ginfo->section=0 too.
Yeah, it is a real mess. Eventually I think it will all be sorted out:
http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ObjfileSplitting
Tom
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