From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
To: Robert Lipe <robertlipe@usa.net>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why not a label for .debug_frame?
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB0D773.A817890@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010925005844.B12251@rjlhome.caldera.com>
Robert Lipe wrote:
>
> > However, I have a problem where the name of the section .debug_frame
> > is used as a symbol (a "section symbol"), which is an ELFism not
> > supported by the Mach-O assembler. I'm a little loath to change
>
> I'm not convinced it's an ELF-ism at all. I think it's something that
> just happens to be supported by GNU as.
Yeah, somehow I always "just knew" this, but I couldn't find any
documented reference to the behavior, and finally had to verify by
looking at gas sources...
> > So my question is, why isn't .debug_frame handled this way too?
> > Inertia perhaps?
>
> I selfishly scratched only the rash that was affecting me. I was in
> code that was well above my head. I beat it until submission so that my
> target bootstrapped and the debugger worked at least trivially. So I
> made no promises that I took the moral high roads on that.
No prob, now that I have a similar itch to scratch (image of
hundreds of engineers all furiously scratching themselves, bleah),
I'll work up the patch.
Stan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-25 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-24 17:37 Stan Shebs
2001-09-24 18:13 ` Richard Henderson
2001-09-24 22:56 ` Robert Lipe
2001-09-25 12:15 ` Stan Shebs [this message]
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