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Re: gdb/454: "DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section"
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 23 Oct 2002 12:18:05 -0000
- Subject: Re: gdb/454: "DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section"
- Reply-to: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
The following reply was made to PR gdb/454; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Stephane Carrez <stcarrez@nerim.fr>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>, gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com,
Reva Cuthbertson <reva@cup.hp.com>, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb/454: "DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section"
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:43:07 +0930
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:32:31AM +0200, Stephane Carrez wrote:
> My problem was in the assembler where the BFD_RELOC_32 to the .debug_str
> labels
> are turned into relocs against the section. This is very bad because the
> .debug_str
> section is marked with M/SEC_MERGE and strings can be removed.
This is not a problem. Or at least there is code in bfd to adjust
relocs for SEC_MERGE sections. See _bfd_elf_rel_local_sym and
_bfd_elf_rela_local_sym.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre