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authorJim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>1993-09-08 18:30:25 +0000
committerJim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>1993-09-08 18:30:25 +0000
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* stabs.texinfo (Stabs In ELF, Statics): More on relocating stabs
in ELF files.
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@@ -3624,14 +3624,13 @@ For Solaris 2.3 and later, the linker ignores relocations for the stabs
section. The value of a @code{N_FUN} stab is zero and the address of a
function can be obtained from the ELF (non-stab) symbols. Sun, in
reference to bug 1142109, has verified that this is intentional.
-Because looking things up in the ELF symbols is slow and GDB currently
-only has code to do this for functions (which is enough for Solaris
-since read-only variables go in the @code{.rodata} section), it would
-probably be better to use a @code{Ttext.text} symbol for stabs-in-elf on
-non-Solaris machines, and make the address in the @code{N_FUN} relative
-to the @code{Ttext.text} symbol. In addition to @code{N_FUN} symbols,
-whether the linker relocates stabs also affects some @code{N_ROSYM},
-@code{N_STSYM}, and @code{N_LCSYM} symbols; see @ref{Statics}.
+Because looking things up in the ELF symbols is slow and GDB lacks code
+to do this this, it would probably be better to use a @code{Ttext.text}
+symbol for stabs-in-elf on non-Solaris machines, and make the address in
+the @code{N_FUN} relative to the @code{Ttext.text} symbol. In addition
+to @code{N_FUN} symbols, whether the linker relocates stabs also affects
+some @code{N_ROSYM}, @code{N_STSYM}, and @code{N_LCSYM} symbols; see
+@ref{Statics}.
@node Symbol Types Index
@unnumbered Symbol Types Index