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

[Geoff Keating]

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?