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Re: [BUG] Regression in 2.14.90 (relative to 2.13.90)
- From: Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe dot com>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:34:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: [BUG] Regression in 2.14.90 (relative to 2.13.90)
- References: <20031126010816.GA13067@lucon.org> <20031126021325.GA12151@alinoe.com> <20031126043049.GA4512@nevyn.them.org> <m37k1njmx4.fsf@redhat.com> <20031126153606.GA10847@nevyn.them.org> <m3oeuzhyu1.fsf@redhat.com> <20031126194452.GA18482@alinoe.com> <20031219180404.GA3867@alinoe.com> <m3iskcx7ht.fsf@redhat.com> <20031222175116.GA17262@lucon.org>
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:51:16AM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:39:58AM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > Hi Carlo,
> >
> > >> > info as possible ? It seems that including this information is what
> > >> > it causing the problem, and ideally what we ought to be doing is
> > >> > discarding .gnu.linkonce sections containing debug info, rather than
> > >> > retaining them.
> > >>
> > >> I'd be happy when the info is disregarded. Much better than
> > >> assigning it the address of another function.
> > >>
> > >> Is it possible to do this instead, before 2.14 is released
> > >> at large?
> > >
> > > What is the status of this Problem Report?
> >
> > Sorry - it has been sidelined whilst I try to get through all of the
> > work that boss has assigned to me. I think that the last thing that
> > happened was that HJ said that there was a better way to fix the
> > problem, but I am not sure if he implemented it.
> >
>
> That is the bug we have to live with until SHT_GROUP is used by gcc.
> BTW, I am still waiting for a simple testcase to show the problem
> with gdb.
Who is the one that could provide this code? It surely isn't me,
I have no idea what is the problem with gdb that is related to this.
But if you give me a detail description of where to find relevant
information then I might try to come up with a test case.
--
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>