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From: Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
Cc: robertlipe@usa.net, bfd@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: patch was: dwarf2 debug dependent upon GAS?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u9pv6fzxmg.fsf@yorick.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199903111541.HAA20447@rtl.cygnus.com>

>>>>> Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com> writes:

 >    From: Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com>
 >    Date: 11 Mar 1999 00:02:35 -0800

 >    This is irrelevant to your patch, but on Linux the local symbols do
 >    show up in the symbol table, as I remembered; I always filter nm
 >    output as a result.  This may be a gas thing.  Any gas folk care to
 >    comment?

 > Yes, there is some bad interaction going on, I believe related to
 > debugging references to local symbols in non-standard sections.  The
 > assembler is not converting them into relocs against a section symbol
 > for some reason.  I've never gotten around to looking into it.

I assume that fixing this would dramatically improve link time for DWARF2?

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~1999-03-11 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]           ` <19990302002736.G27552@rjlhome.sco.com>
1999-03-11  0:02             ` Jason Merrill
1999-03-11  7:41               ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-03-11 10:31                 ` Jason Merrill [this message]
1999-03-11 10:44                   ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-03-11 11:20                     ` Jason Merrill
1999-03-11 18:02                       ` Ian Lance Taylor

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