Relaxations vs debug info

James Bowman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <2BB0A51F073B384698CACFD1D5A30FCC24F429@glaexch3>
I am working on some linker relaxations for my target, using existing 
relaxation implementations as my pattern.

Everything seems to be working: relaxations are being applied, for example
relaxation reduces the size of function foo from 0x48 to 0x38 bytes. 
Checking symbols, it looks good:

    $ ft32-elf-objdump -t a.out  | grep foo
    0000033c g     F .text  00000038 foo

However when I look at the debug info (objdump -g) I see that the size is still 0x48:

    <a1d>   DW_AT_name        : foo
    <a21>   DW_AT_decl_file   : 1
    <a22>   DW_AT_decl_line   : 51
    <a23>   DW_AT_prototyped  : 1
    <a23>   DW_AT_type        : <0x5d>
    <a27>   DW_AT_low_pc      : 0x33c
    <a2b>   DW_AT_high_pc     : 0x48
    
Unsurprisingly this confuses gdb.

My question is: in relaxation, how does the gdb info get adjusted?
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