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Re: gc-sections & debug info

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: Jafa <jafa at silicondust dot com>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:22:33 +0930
Subject: Re: gc-sections & debug info
References: <200308272011.h7RKBWjR015907@duracef.shout.net><007601c36ce5$81105e30$0502a8c0@scenix.com><20030828000643.GL1320@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au><011401c36d01$6df1e4b0$0a00a8c0@nkelseyhome>

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:12:19PM -0700, Jafa wrote:
> Presumably every port has the same problem with gc-sections, some ports
> support a form of relaxation, and many ports support more than one type of
> debug output. Are there a set of functions for adjusting/manipulating debug
> info in the linker?

See elf_bfd_discard_info.

> In the ip2k relax code we directly hack the stabs info - the other ports I
> looked at don't seam to do anything to fix the debug info so I assume that
> they will have problems with the line numbers not lining up if they try to
> debug.

It's possible that the ip2k relax code is confusing the generic stab
discard code.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

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