SOFUN_ADDRESS_MAYBE_MISSING

[Kevin Buettner]

On Oct 6,  2:42pm, Mark Kettenis wrote:

> I'm wondering what to do with SOFUN_ADDRESS_MAYBE_MISSING.  It started
> out (and still largely is) a hack to work around a problem with
> stabs-in-ELF with Sun's C compiler.  Later it also got enabled on some
> Linux variants, to work around a bug in HJ's Linux binutils IIRC.
> 
> The safest thing to do is probably to turn this into a multi-arch
> variable, and set that variable for all targets that #define
> SOFUN_ADDRESS_MAYBE_MISSING.  I winder however, what the impact would
> be of enabling this on all ELF targets, since that would make it
> easier to debug object modules created with the Sun compiler to
> FreeBSD/sparc64 for example.

It's been a while since I've studied this problem, but the last time
I looked at it, enabling SOFUN_ADDRESS_MAYBE_MISSING for all targets
looked pretty safe to me.

Kevin