From 4f49b26b87af3624ba0170fcb54d450a7812402a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Blandy Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:34:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * dbxread.c (read_dbx_symtab): Add FIXME about finding section offsets for global and static variables. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 3 +++ gdb/dbxread.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 0060e87..17f2be9 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2003-09-12 Jim Blandy + * dbxread.c (read_dbx_symtab): Add FIXME about finding section + offsets for global and static variables. + * dbxread.c (read_dbx_symtab): The N_DATA and N_DATA | N_EXT symbol types are, by definition, in the .data section, so it is correct to use SECT_OFF_DATA (objfile) here, not data_sect_index. diff --git a/gdb/dbxread.c b/gdb/dbxread.c index d0b3710..5720130 100644 --- a/gdb/dbxread.c +++ b/gdb/dbxread.c @@ -1357,7 +1357,26 @@ read_dbx_symtab (struct objfile *objfile) textlow_not_set = 1; has_line_numbers = 0; - /* If the objfile has no .data section, try using the .bss section. */ + /* FIXME: jimb/2003-09-12: We don't apply the right section's offset + to global and static variables. The stab for a global or static + variable doesn't give us any indication of which section it's in, + so we can't tell immediately which offset in + objfile->section_offsets we should apply to the variable's + address. + + We could certainly find out which section contains the variable + by looking up the variable's unrelocated address with + find_pc_section, but that would be expensive; this is the + function that constructs the partial symbol tables by examining + every symbol in the entire executable, and it's + performance-critical. So that expense would not be welcome. I'm + not sure what to do about this at the moment. + + What we have done for years is to simply assume that the .data + section's offset is appropriate for all global and static + variables. Recently, this was expanded to fall back to the .bss + section's offset if there is no .data section, and then to the + .rodata section's offset. */ data_sect_index = objfile->sect_index_data; if (data_sect_index == -1) data_sect_index = SECT_OFF_BSS (objfile); -- 2.7.4