On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 03:30:44PM +0200, Tom de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > with gdb we've run into this PR ( > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29295 ) which is due to: > - gdb expecting bfd_count_sections to remain constant, and > - bfd changing the bfd_count_sections from 6 to 7, due to the > creation of a COMMON section during > bfd_simple_get_relocated_section_contents > > The question is: is this expected behaviour for bfd
It is. I'm assuming you are loading ELF files. simple_get_relocated_section_contents needs to load ELF symbols in order to apply relocations. If a symbol with a section of SHN_COMMON is seen, a per-file COMMON section will be created. Hmm, I suppose you could argue that since this is done for the linker, there is no need to do so for simple_get_relocated_section_contents. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM
