[Bug ld/990] "nm -l" doesn't work well on relocatable files

[qunyingpan at yahoo dot com]

------- Additional Comments From qunyingpan at yahoo dot com  2005-06-06 16:50 
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Subject: Re:  "nm -l" doesn't work well on relocatable files

George, so you are debugging an executable (vmlinux),
not a relocatable file when you see this problem,
right? 

The problem reported here and the patch is fixing is
only for a relocatable object, not an executable. Is
it correct? Lu?

Thanks,


--- george at mvista dot com
<address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> ------- Additional Comments From george at mvista
> dot com  2005-06-06 15:59 -------
> Subject: Re:  "nm -l" doesn't work well on
> relocatable files
> 
> hjl at lucon dot org wrote:
> > ------- Additional Comments From hjl at lucon dot
> org  2005-06-06 14:56 -------
> > I checked in my patch. I will have a followup
> patch later.
> > 
> > nm and gdb may or may not share that piece of
> code. You need to file a gdb
> > bug report.
> 
> The problem is knowing where the info gets lost.  My
> initial study seemed to 
> indicate that it was ld that was doing it, thus this
> report.
> 
> > 
> > BTW, does entry.S have dwarf debug info? does gdb
> get wrong line number on
> > functions or just variables?
> 
> Yes, I use -gdwarf-2.  The wrong info shows up on
> "bt" into entry.S where gdb 
> (run in emacs) shows the source file.  What is
> displayed, ususlly, is some 
> header file.  This is line number/source related. 
> The reported function is the 
> nearest preceeding label and seems to be right.
> > 
> 
> 
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