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> So, clearly the optimization is making things worse. Would it be okay to delete > this code and eliminate the isBaseAddressKnownZero? I would like to get rid of > it. I think it is OK. I can see ld/gdb expecting a relocation, but if that is the case we should just have a flag saying it is needed. If you are really motivated to check it, run the gdb testsuite with your patch, but on

...F our debug info is still too big to be usable. > > > - Jan > > Cheers, > Rafael I ran the gdb tests with and without the patch and there was no difference. I attached the patch. Thanks, Jan -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0047_sectionbasezerodelete.patch Type: application/octet-stream Size: 2311 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20110311/a1a69878/attachment.obj>

I was looking into the AsmPrinter and the method EmitSectionOffset which contains this code: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // If the section in question will end up with an address of 0 anyway, we can // just emit an absolute reference to save a relocation. if (Section.isBaseAddressKnownZero()) { OutStreamer.EmitSymbolValue(Label, 4,