Re: [PING][PATCH,DWARF,gfortran] Change DWARF-2 output for Fortran COMMON symbols

[George Helffrich <george at geology dot bristol dot ac dot uk>]

On 22 Nov 2007, at 10:55, Geoff Keating wrote:

> George Helffrich <george@geology.bristol.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-11/msg00311.html
>
> > This fixes problems that arise, on some systems (e.g. Darwin) with
> > relocating symbols in .comm. The patch has no effect on non-Fortran
> > .comm symbols.
>
> It seems like this patch is working around bugs in GDB's relocation
> processing.  Since you're already requiring a modified GDB, why not
> modify it further to do proper relocations?

Seems likely to be a frustrating and ultimately fruitless task since it 
is
about 60 days since I submitted the GDB patch to RadarWeb, still 
without any
response (simply Open).  However pointless this is for me, something
useful for gcc may come of it if using dwarf's DW_AT_common_block for 
what
it was designed for has any appeal!