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Re: ELF phdrs in .debug files
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:41:20 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: ELF phdrs in .debug files
> Roland - I assume that it is unlikely that the elfutils could/would
> be modified to use the section header information if the program header
> information is unavailable. Is this correct ?
That's correct. I am not willing to make it do the wrong thing.
> (By the way, does GDB work with a stripped executable which has had
> its section headers removed, but its program headers left in tact ? Can
> GDB use a debug-info file connected with such an executable ?)
I sincerely doubt it.
> Is this a fair assessment of the debate so far ?
I believe so.
Thanks,
Roland