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Re: wrong section when using find_pc_section
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: freenix <van dot freenix at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:53:53 -0600
- Subject: Re: wrong section when using find_pc_section
- References: <5204D68E dot 6060107 at gmail dot com> <87txiyu3ca dot fsf at fleche dot redhat dot com> <5205A5E5 dot 3090000 at gmail dot com>
>> I traced the code and found that it did remove the overlapped sections.
>> it this a must to remove the overlapped sections? I want to use the
>> overlapped
>> sections, but not remove it. Is there any way that can return the
>> overlapped sections?
I don't really know for sure. I suspect you will run into problems,
though mostly of the "mystery" kind. For example, whether fixup_section
gives the right answer or not will most likely depend on the ordering of
sections in the objfile -- stuff like that.
Tom