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Re: "gdb vmlinux" gives wrong symbol addresses

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:08:29AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> I think that for ET_EXEC and ET_DYN gdb should ignore relocs that use
> the normal symbol table.  Sane ELF targets will have dynamic reloc
> section(s) with sh_link pointing at a symtab section with sh_type of
> SHT_DYNSYM.  --emit-relocs creates reloc sections with sh_link pointing
> at a symtab section with sh_type of SHT_SYMTAB.

This amounts to always ignoring relocations; GDB only uses relocations
for debug sections, which will never point at SHT_DYNSYM (I don't
think?).

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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