I stumbled upon a few comments that I think are outdated.
Comment for elfread.c (elf_symfile_init): As far as history goes in git,
I don't see anything related to that.
Comment for elfread.c (elf_symfile_read): References a parameter that was
removed in 1999.
Comment for struct sym_fns/sym_offsets: References a parameter that was
changed in 1999.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* elfread.c (elf_symfile_init): Remove stale comment.
(elf_symfile_read): Same.
* symfile.h (struct sym_fns): Same.
+2014-12-18 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
+
+ * elfread.c (elf_symfile_init): Remove stale comment.
+ (elf_symfile_read): Same.
+ * symfile.h (struct sym_fns): Same.
+
2014-12-18 Nigel Stephens <nigel@mips.com>
Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@codesourcery.com>
We have been initialized by a call to elf_symfile_init, which
currently does nothing.
- SECTION_OFFSETS is a set of offsets to apply to relocate the symbols
- in each section. We simplify it down to a single offset for all
- symbols. FIXME.
-
This function only does the minimum work necessary for letting the
user "name" things symbolically; it does not read the entire symtab.
Instead, it reads the external and static symbols and puts them in partial
dwarf2_free_objfile (objfile);
}
-/* ELF specific initialization routine for reading symbols.
-
- It is passed a pointer to a struct sym_fns which contains, among other
- things, the BFD for the file whose symbols are being read, and a slot for
- a pointer to "private data" which we can fill with goodies.
-
- For now at least, we have nothing in particular to do, so this function is
- just a stub. */
+/* ELF specific initialization routine for reading symbols. */
static void
elf_symfile_init (struct objfile *objfile)
void (*sym_finish) (struct objfile *);
+
/* This function produces a file-dependent section_offsets
- structure, allocated in the objfile's storage, and based on the
- parameter. The parameter is currently a CORE_ADDR (FIXME!) for
- backward compatibility with the higher levels of GDB. It should
- probably be changed to a string, where NULL means the default,
- and others are parsed in a file dependent way. */
+ structure, allocated in the objfile's storage.
+
+ The section_addr_info structure contains the offset of loadable and
+ allocated sections, relative to the absolute offsets found in the BFD. */
void (*sym_offsets) (struct objfile *, const struct section_addr_info *);