> From: Jim Cromie [mailto:jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx] > I dont think theres "smarts" in there, so much as the kernel > just doing what the ELF contents tell it. > heres some sections from my local perl binary, > which I built with -DDEBUGGING > While not actually knowing, Id expect the usual dynamic linking mechanics would also pull in the debugging symbols > Section Headers: > [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al > [snipped] > [26] .comment PROGBITS 00000000 265a74 0007e9 00 0 0 1 > [27] .debug_aranges PROGBITS 00000000 26625d 0004c0 00 0 0 1 > [28] .debug_pubnames PROGBITS 00000000 26671d 00a93f 00 0 0 1 > [29] .debug_info PROGBITS 00000000 27105c 159666 00 0 0 1 > [30] .debug_abbrev PROGBITS 00000000 3ca6c2 00a4ac 00 0 0 1 > [31] .debug_line PROGBITS 00000000 3d4b6e 031374 00 0 0 1 > [32] .debug_str PROGBITS 00000000 405ee2 014e54 01 MS 0 0 1 > [33] .debug_loc PROGBITS 00000000 41ad36 0d3aca 00 0 0 1 > [34] .debug_ranges PROGBITS 00000000 4ee800 0393a8 00 0 0 1 Jim Looks like that could make some sense as there is no Address associated with the debug just offset and size Adrian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
