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Re: Seeking from the end of the file in the bfd library
- To: david dot welch at st-edmund-hall dot oxford dot ac dot uk
- Subject: Re: Seeking from the end of the file in the bfd library
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>
- Date: 23 Feb 2000 11:21:34 -0500
- CC: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <Pine.OSF.4.05.10002231206160.31420-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:12:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Welch <david.welch@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk>
I'm working on adding support to gdb for debugging executables produced by
the Oxford Oberon compiler. The executable format generated by this
compiler has the header at the end of the file. But in the version of the
bfd library included with gdb 4.18, seeking from the end of the file isn't
supported. Is this restriction relaxed in later versions or are there any
workarounds? I'm not interested in supporting this executable format
embedded in archives.
The workaround is to use bfd_stat to determine the size of the file,
and compute from there.
bfd_stat doesn't work for archive elements either. But I think we
could make it work if we wanted too.
Ian