revise comment

diff --git a/gdb/dbxread.c b/gdb/dbxread.c
index 8c35def35f4332ad5d442fee35e7a872cb739ce5..cc0c43ea9f7bdee82085178f13037a8bd227760b 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/dbxread.c
+++ b/gdb/dbxread.c
@@ -1809,7 +1809,10 @@ process_one_symbol (type, desc, valu, name, section_offsets, objfile)
        .stab "foo:V...",N_STSYM        is relative (section base subtracted).
        This leaves us no choice but to search for the 'S' or 'V'...
        (or pass the whole section_offsets stuff down ONE MORE function
-       call level, which we really don't want to do).  */
+       call level, which we really don't want to do).
+
+       The above is indeed true for Solaris 2.1.  I'm not sure what
+       happens in Solaris 2.3, in which ld stops relocating stabs.  */
       {
        char *p;
        p = strchr (name, ':');
@@ -1817,7 +1820,9 @@ process_one_symbol (type, desc, valu, name, section_offsets, objfile)
          {
            /* FIXME!  We relocate it by the TEXT offset, in case the
               whole module moved in memory.  But this is wrong, since
-              the sections can side around independently.  */
+              the sections can side around independently.  (I suspect that
+              the text offset is always zero anyway--elfread.c doesn't
+              process (and Sun cc doesn't produce) Ttext.text symbols).  */
            valu += ANOFFSET (section_offsets, SECT_OFF_TEXT);
            goto define_a_symbol;
          }