[uClibc].note.ABI-tag sections?

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Jan 27, 2003 at 09:41:57PM -0700, Ray L wrote:
> 
> 
> hi all
> 
> i'm building gdb-5.3 using the CVS buildroot for an arm 720T based system.
> when i run gdb on the board, anything i try to debug dies with SIGILL, even
> though it runs fine outside of gdb.
> 
> the archives mention the use of .note.ABI-tag sections which tell gdb what
> sort of breakpoint to insert, but i'm not seeing this section in my executables.
> 
> how do i get arm-uclibc-gcc to insert a .note.ABI-tag section in my executables
> so that gdb can debug them properly?

This is added to uClibc via uClibc/libc/misc/internals/abi-note.S
Hmm.  Is your app linked staticly?  I suppose it is possible the
symbol isn't being included when staticly linking.

 -Erik

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