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Re: mdebug
- To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: mdebug
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 21:48:32 -0400
- Cc: "David B. Anderson" <davea at dsl-quasar dot corp dot sgi dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200003312258.OAA25181@dsl-quasar.corp.sgi.com> <14565.12523.449478.621361@kwikemart.cygnus.com>
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 06:12:43PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
>
> Thanks David, I did find your paper.
>
> And yes, I have a specific question. Does mdebug let the user specify
> a procedure like 'main()' in a section other than .text?
8-9 years ago when I was hacking ECOFF, the answer was no, since you couldn't
create any sections other than the predefined sections (and indeed, there was
no way to create section names of more than 8 characters). The MIPS/SGI tools
would crash if you built up a section with an unknown name. Using mdebug under
ELF, I dunno. My guess is no.
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