From 32d71e32d118332ecf993c167b899fdda8680a13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Kingdon Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 18:30:25 +0000 Subject: * stabs.texinfo (Stabs In ELF, Statics): More on relocating stabs in ELF files. --- gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo index 367c02f..ba8a453 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/stabs.texinfo @@ -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 -- cgit v1.1