Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 23:49:01 +0100 (CET) From: Fabio Alemagna To: Richard Henderson cc: Brian Ford , Nick Clifton , , , , Subject: Re: Support for DDWARF-2 debug info? (on Cygwin) In-Reply-To: <20030117225510.GC1898@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.10 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:18:20AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: > > I am still consulting the DWARF2 spec to see if gcc and gas are > > correct in generating VMA addresses. If so, I guess I have to fix the > > dwarf parsing code in bfd and gdb to subtract the section base VMA. > > No, dwarf specifies a section-relative address. The issue is that, > with the exception of IA-64, no target has section-relative relocations. > So instead we force the VMA to zero such that the VMA address and > the section offset are identical. > > If you cannot do this with PE, then you have to add new relocs. > There's no other way around it. Wait a minute, are you saying IA-64 implements section-relative relocations? Is that for any kind of sections, or just the dwarf's ones? Hope the former, because in that's exactly what I need for AROS. Fabio Alemagna -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/