"gdb vmlinux" gives wrong symbol addresses

[Vivek Goyal]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 09:54:30PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:08:29AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > I think that for ET_EXEC and ET_DYN gdb should ignore relocs that use
> > the normal symbol table.  Sane ELF targets will have dynamic reloc
> > section(s) with sh_link pointing at a symtab section with sh_type of
> > SHT_DYNSYM.  --emit-relocs creates reloc sections with sh_link pointing
> > at a symtab section with sh_type of SHT_SYMTAB.
> 
> This amounts to always ignoring relocations; GDB only uses relocations
> for debug sections, which will never point at SHT_DYNSYM (I don't
> think?).
>

This brings me to a stupid question. Why do I have to apply relocations
for file type ET_EXEC. By definition, doesn't it mean that all the
relocations have already been processed?

Thanks
Vivek