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IEEE support issues
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- Subject: IEEE support issues
- From: "Alexander Aganichev" <AAganichev at hypercom dot com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 15:17:20 +0400
Hi!
1. This code in ieee.c was fixed in CVS but then reverted:
==
info->filename = filename;
modname = strrchr (filename, '/');
/* We could have a mixed forward/back slash case. */
backslash = strrchr (modname, '\\');
if (backslash > modname)
modname = backslash;
if (modname != NULL)
++modname;
==
Could anyone please to replace at least `modname' with `filename' in the
second strrchr so binutils will not crash on IEEE producing? I really don't
care about signed pointers but this change is essential for me since we
regularly produce IEEE object files from COFF in our company ;-)
2. The second issue I found is that GCC and Binutils differently parses
size in .stab debug information: GCC produces sizes in bits and Binutils
assumes bytes. I don't know who is right (though it seems like GCC) but
this issue should be resolved. Currently I've added division by 8 to the
parse_stab_type() (stabs.c) as follows:
==
switch (*attr)
{
case 's':
size = atoi (attr + 1) / 8; /* adjust the size */
if (size <= 0)
size = -1;
break;
case 'S':
stringp = true;
break;
default:
/* Ignore unrecognized type attributes, so future
compilers can invent new ones. */
break;
}
==
--
Alexander Aganichev
Hypercom Europe Limited, Inc.
Software Engineer