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Re: Relaxation and .debug_loc section
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 08:59:41AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
Andreas Schwab wrote:
Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com> writes:
When the relaxation pass shrinks the code, these offsets
point to the wrong locations. I've looked through other
targets to see if there is anything which looks like it
fixes up the .debug_loc section after relaxation, but
I haven't found anything.
I think if you want to do linker relaxing you have to tell the assembler
not to resolve such relocations.
There's no way to do that. The offsets are simple expressions.
The assembler converts them to integer values.
I'm pretty sure there is. Did you look at the macros Alan suggested?
It looks like only Xtensa relaxes debug info sections, juudging from
the TC_LINKRELAX_FIXUP definition.
.debug_info section has relocations. .debug_loc doesn't.
It's not hard to fix up the .debug_info references.
In any event, I've written code which fixes the .debug_loc offsets
without generating additional relocation entries.
Unfortunately, it's in a proprietary target. I don't currently
have permission to submit patches to the open source repository.
I have an agreement in principle to submit the target in the future,
unless, of course, the current discussion about GPLv2 vs GPLv3
licensing on the GCC mailing list has the fallout of the client
deciding otherwise.
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