linker relocation of debug information

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Tue Jan 27 21:38:00 GMT 2004


On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:31:16PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Jeff Baker <jbaker@qnx.com> writes:
> 
> > Does anyone remember when this behaviour was changed in the binutils?
> 
> Well, see this message I wrote a few years back for some more
> background information.  Even at the time the situation was confused.
>     http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/1999-q2/msg00046.html

Well, in reference to that specific confusion - I believe that GCC no
longer generates debug information which includes the address of
external symbols.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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