Recent versions of GDB (and probably older ones too, but not checked) crash
with and abort when loading the non-stripped 32-bit PPC QEMU build[1]. This
is due to a bug in GDB on reading stab symbols. The only place in OpenBIOS
where stab symbols are generated is in libgcc/crtsavres.S, which was copied
from the linux kernel[2].
Symbols that were defined in the stabs section are still able to be seen in
GDB after stabs removal. There does not appear to be a loss in debugging
functionality.
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28900
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h?h=v5.17-rc4#n211
Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
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