------- Additional Comments From drow at false dot org 2008-07-25 16:00 -------
Subject: Re: abbrev_offset in DWARF2 info is set incorrectly
(zero) by ld
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:12:17PM -0000, nickc at redhat dot com wrote:
> The problem with GDB has two parts. Firstly the code in
> dwarf2read.c:read_partial_die that processes the DW_AT_sibiling attribute does
> not check to see if the offset is valid. This is what eventually leads to the
> seg-fault. The second problem is much bigger - GDB is not processing the
> relocs
> in the object file before attempting to interpret the debug sections and this
> is
> why it is having problems.
Current versions do this and have for a long time; search for
symfile_relocate_debug_section.
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