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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/elfread.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/elfread.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/elfread.c b/gdb/elfread.c index 067c77f26dc..fd65ecf9159 100644 --- a/gdb/elfread.c +++ b/gdb/elfread.c @@ -303,6 +303,23 @@ elf_symtab_read (struct objfile *objfile, int type, if (!sect) continue; + /* On ia64-hpux, we have discovered that the system linker + adds undefined symbols with nonzero addresses that cannot + be right (their address points inside the code of another + function in the .text section). This creates problems + when trying to determine which symbol corresponds to + a given address. + + We try to detect those buggy symbols by checking which + section we think they correspond to. Normally, PLT symbols + are stored inside their own section, and the typical name + for that section is ".plt". So, if there is a ".plt" + section, and yet the section name of our symbol does not + start with ".plt", we ignore that symbol. */ + if (strncmp (sect->name, ".plt", 4) != 0 + && bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, ".plt") != NULL) + continue; + symaddr += ANOFFSET (objfile->section_offsets, sect->index); msym = record_minimal_symbol |