Re: debug info breaks build (Was: Re: Variable tracking (location lists support) - part 2)

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Feb 9, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Joern Rennecke wrote:

> > There should be no need for this hunk of code anymore.
> >
> > Does deleting it help?
>
> Only marginally; it removes nine plain references to _.text,
> but all the differences, which are generated by the code in the loop,
> still refer to it.
>
> Thus I still get 26 errors like this for _muldi3.o :
>
> libgcc2.s: Assembler messages:
> libgcc2.s:278: Error: can't resolve `.text' {.text section} - `_.text' 
> {*UND* section}

I'm looking at how to do this "portably". Any suggestions would be 
appreciated.
I assumed we could difference section names without trouble, but this 
was 3 years ago, when i was young and naive :).

We have to difference against the absolute beginning of the section.
Or waste a *TON* of space and emit base address change entries with 
every location list.