From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 19:33:20 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: gdb/xcoffread: remove read of .debug section
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9beed297ac63fea95b8dae8d6f8c99ddd4a6b7bd;p=thirdparty%2Fbinutils-gdb.git

gdb/xcoffread: remove read of .debug section

This is not used by anything.

Change-Id: Icc5e72b2f30521b8856db46f4d6cabf26f615b0b
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
---

diff --git a/gdb/xcoffread.c b/gdb/xcoffread.c
index d46b4eb23f3..43d3cec2e49 100644
--- a/gdb/xcoffread.c
+++ b/gdb/xcoffread.c
@@ -38,9 +38,6 @@
 
 struct xcoff_symfile_info
   {
-    /* Pointer to debug section.  */
-    char *debugsec = nullptr;
-
     /* Pointer to the a.out symbol table.  */
     char *symtbl = nullptr;
 
@@ -300,37 +297,6 @@ xcoff_initial_scan (struct objfile *objfile, symfile_add_flags symfile_flags)
   num_symbols = bfd_get_symcount (abfd);	/* # of symbols */
   symtab_offset = obj_sym_filepos (abfd);	/* symbol table file offset */
 
-  if (num_symbols > 0)
-    {
-      /* Read the .debug section, if present and if we're not ignoring
-	 it.  */
-      if (!(objfile->flags & OBJF_READNEVER))
-	{
-	  struct bfd_section *secp;
-	  bfd_size_type length;
-	  bfd_byte *debugsec = NULL;
-
-	  secp = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, ".debug");
-	  if (secp)
-	    {
-	      length = bfd_get_section_alloc_size (abfd, secp);
-	      if (length)
-		{
-		  debugsec
-		    = (bfd_byte *) obstack_alloc (&objfile->objfile_obstack,
-						  length);
-
-		  if (!bfd_get_full_section_contents (abfd, secp, &debugsec))
-		    {
-		      error (_("Error reading .debug section of `%s': %s"),
-			     name, bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
-		    }
-		}
-	    }
-	  info->debugsec = (char *) debugsec;
-	}
-    }
-
   /* Read the symbols.  We keep them in core because we will want to
      access them randomly in read_symbol*.  */
   val = bfd_seek (abfd, symtab_offset, SEEK_SET);