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[GOLD] debug_msg test

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Fri Mar 8 00:45:00 GMT 2013 
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:59:57AM -0800, Cary Coutant wrote:
> > Yes, I'm sure we don't have a problem with the dwarf info.  (Or at
> > least, it's not an easy problem to fix.)  PowerPC64 doesn't have a
> > linker managed GOT like most other targets.  Instead the compiler
> > manages the GOT (and calls it TOC).  That results in no relocation
> > on the actual code referencing a variable, but one in the TOC section
> > instead.  Like a linker managed GOT, a TOC entry can serve multiple
> > references to a given symbol, so there isn't really any way to
> > associate a TOC entry with a particular source/line.  I suppose we
> > could modify gcc to output one source/line combo on TOC entries, but
> > we don't do that currently.
> >
> > A similar situation happens on ppc32 with -fPIC and the .got2 section,
> > which again is a compiler managed GOT.
> 
> It sounds like it's impractical, then, to get a line number in this
> case, so I'd suggest suppressing that one check for powerpc.
> 
> Something like the attached should work.

Thanks!  It does, and I'm happy with it from a powerpc testing
perspective.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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