aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>2025-08-27 10:07:50 -0400
committerSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>2025-08-28 10:13:42 -0400
commit69b9f23264b1c9156f9499125df96c69e9927f14 (patch)
tree0251d16ef069d0905004013dddfe2e76d2e7a36b
parenta1bc13149815f14c5e0fee8eb304dff5209b6de1 (diff)
downloadbinutils-69b9f23264b1c9156f9499125df96c69e9927f14.zip
binutils-69b9f23264b1c9156f9499125df96c69e9927f14.tar.gz
binutils-69b9f23264b1c9156f9499125df96c69e9927f14.tar.bz2
gdb/objfiles: add comment explaining when obj_section::the_bfd_section is nullptr
Change-Id: Iae17492f468efba7b76463a6ff8526171e412040 Reviewed-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--gdb/objfiles.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/objfiles.h b/gdb/objfiles.h
index bce8557..da9d2f3 100644
--- a/gdb/objfiles.h
+++ b/gdb/objfiles.h
@@ -395,7 +395,9 @@ struct obj_section
return addr >= this->addr () && addr < endaddr ();
}
- /* BFD section pointer */
+ /* BFD section pointer. This is nullptr if the corresponding BFD section is
+ not allocatable (!SEC_ALLOC), in which case this obj_section can be
+ considered NULL / empty. */
struct bfd_section *the_bfd_section;
/* Objfile this section is part of. */