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From: "tromey at sourceware dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: gdb-prs@sourceware.org
Subject: [Bug win32/18027] dwarf2 debug info after rebasing DLLs unusable
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:15:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-18027-4717-UReyA2rxWF@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-18027-4717@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18027

--- Comment #13 from Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> ---
(In reply to Corinna Vinschen from comment #12)

> Isn't there some kind of version information in the DWARF sections somewhere?
> GDB could use that to distinguish absolute vs. load-address relative DWARF
> info.

There is, but it's not useful for this.  There's no way to tell which
linker was in use.

> We have to assume that the DLL has been built with debugging symbols.  SO
> we can safely assume that the DllMain function is always present.

It's not unheard of for programs to have some compilations with
debuginfo and some without.

I tend to think we'll have to do this the way BFD does: just
keep trying symbols until we find one that works.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-17  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-26  5:36 [Bug win32/18027] New: " corinna at vinschen dot de
2015-02-26  9:39 ` [Bug win32/18027] " asmwarrior at gmail dot com
2023-02-11 17:48 ` tromey at sourceware dot org
2023-02-12 12:20 ` ssbssa at sourceware dot org
2023-02-13 10:31 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-02-13 10:36 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-02-13 14:01 ` simark at simark dot ca
2023-02-13 16:17 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-02-13 17:13 ` simark at simark dot ca
2023-02-13 17:24 ` ssbssa at sourceware dot org
2023-02-13 19:23 ` tromey at sourceware dot org
2023-02-13 19:46 ` ssbssa at sourceware dot org
2023-02-13 19:48 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-02-13 22:08 ` tromey at sourceware dot org
2023-02-15 10:22 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-02-17  2:15 ` tromey at sourceware dot org [this message]
2023-02-28 14:43 ` tromey at sourceware dot org
2023-02-28 15:20 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-02-28 15:22 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-03-24 17:31 ` tromey at sourceware dot org
2023-03-24 19:00 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-03-27  9:19 ` nickc at redhat dot com
2023-03-28  8:58 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-03-28 14:01 ` nickc at redhat dot com
2023-03-28 18:10 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-03-29 12:46 ` tromey at sourceware dot org
2023-03-30  9:23 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-03-30  9:24 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-04-21 16:38 ` tromey at sourceware dot org
2023-04-21 16:54 ` tromey at sourceware dot org
2023-04-21 17:11 ` tromey at sourceware dot org
2023-04-21 19:48 ` corinna at vinschen dot de
2023-04-24 15:54 ` tromey at sourceware dot org

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