Re: wrong section when using find_pc_section
Tom Tromey <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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>> I found that `disas` uses find_pc_section to locate the section which >> contains the symbol passed to disas. It uses a bsearch function to do >> the searching. >> But if two sections are overlapped, find_pc_section can not correctly >> return the section contains the address. According at least to update_section_map, overlapping sections are dropped from the map. The comment by filter_overlapping_sections seems apropos: /* Filter out overlapping sections, issuing a warning if any are found. Overlapping sections could really be overlay sections which we didn't classify as such in insert_section_p, or we could be dealing with a corrupt binary. */ Tom