Hi Mark,
> Thanks for testing the patch. Although I am slightly confused how it
> ended up producing a .debug_abbrev section that is actually empty. Are
> you sure this isn't an existing issue?
it certainly is, and not related to your patch (which I didn't test: my
IRIX and Tru64 UNIX boxes are far too slow to test anything not
immediatly related ;-) I just observed this general issue and wanted to
point it out to avoid introducing other instances without due
consideration.
> The only thing the patch should do (and seems to do on my GNU/Linux
> setup) is to explicitly output a .debug_aranges section that is of the
> minimum size (so not actually empty, just indicating no ranges are
> covered by outputting just the table terminator).
Seems I misread the patch then: I'd suspect this (instead of zero-sized
sections) should be safe. Sorry for the noise.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
