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Re: [RFA/DWARF] Do not load .eh_frame section from separete object files

From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:09:21 +0200
Subject: Re: [RFA/DWARF] Do not load .eh_frame section from separete object files
References: <1309543276-15291-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> <m3k4c194ja.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

On Jul 1, 2011, at 9:36 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:

>>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
> 
> Joel> We don't need to read the .eh_frame section from the separate
> Joel> object files, because this data is already present in the
> Joel> main executable (it needs to, or the program wouldn't work).
> 
> In the .debug files I looked at, the .eh_frame section is marked NOBITS.
> I wonder why this isn't the case for you.

That's not the case on Darwin, as separate files are object files in this case.

> Joel> Tested on x86_64-linux as well as x86_64-darwin.  OK to commit?
> 
> The patch itself seems fine to me.
> 
> Tom

References:
- [RFA/DWARF] Do not load .eh_frame section from separete object files
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: [RFA/DWARF] Do not load .eh_frame section from separete object files
  - From: Tom Tromey

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