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Re: bfd_find_nearest_line vs local symbols
- To: Doug Evans <dje at transmeta dot com>
- Subject: Re: bfd_find_nearest_line vs local symbols
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:26:04 -0700
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200008182114.OAA17858@casey.transmeta.com>
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:14:59PM -0700, Doug Evans wrote:
> Should bfd_find_nearest_line ignore local symbols?
No, since you'd break searching for a static function.
> The simulators make use of this function to do source line
> tracing and sometimes I see local symbols in the output (blech).
In hand-written assembly or what? Surely the ".L" type symbols
that the compiler puts out never made it to the object file.
r~