Debugging Information in Separate Files

Hi to all,

reading the GDB manual at chapter 15.2 "Debugging
Information in
Separate Files" (at
http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_
16.html#SEC156 ) I'm
developing a software able to read the "debug
link"section into the
executable file.

The manual tell to check for the ".gnu_debuglink"
section into the
executable file, but when I check a Win32 EXE file I found
that the
"debug link" section is named "/4",
why?

PS: I know that a Win32 EXE file cannot contains sections
with name
over 8 bytes.

Can someone help me, please?

-- 
Best regards...

Fabio Dell'Aria.

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:53:11AM +0100, Fabio Dell'Aria
wrote:
> The manual tell to check for the
".gnu_debuglink" section into the
> executable file, but when I check a Win32 EXE file I
found that the
> "debug link" section is named "/4",
why?

I have no idea, but you might want to ask the binutils
list.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

Hi,

2008/1/20, Daniel Jacobowitz <drowfalse.org>:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:53:11AM +0100, Fabio
Dell'Aria wrote:
> > The manual tell to check for the
".gnu_debuglink" section into the
> > executable file, but when I check a Win32 EXE file
I found that the
> > "debug link" section is named
"/4", why?
>
> I have no idea, but you might want to ask the binutils
list.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery

Thank you! 

-- 
Best regards...

Fabio Dell'Aria.