This is the mail archive of the gdb-patches@sourceware.org mailing list for the GDB project.

Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [rfc] Fix problem with (maybe) non-relocated .opd section on powerpc64-linux

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:09:32PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> ANOFFSET is also a obj_section thing, but we have target sections
> in the convert_from_func_ptr callback ...
> 
> Why do we need to keep section data in both the target and the
> objfile?

Nowadays, I don't think we do.  Pedro has a patch to remove some of
it, but I think we could go even further - probably by eliminating
99% of the distinction between exec-file and symbol-file.  Not all of
it, since some is still clearly useful.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]