[syslinux] Can't get COM32 + GDB to work

[Sebastian Herbszt]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/20/2010 02:40 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>> 
>> This seems to work with Bochs. If i use "free_high_memory" instead of
>> 0x00160000 it doesn't.
>> 
> 
> OK, so gcc doesn't handle symbols in that context.  Figures.
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> I'm not a big fan of gcc :(
> 
> -hpa

"You cannot simply generate ABS symbols by `.equ' as GDB requires the symbol
to be SEC_CODE, therefore .text section relative." [1] 

Could this statement be somehow related?

[1] http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-04/msg00098.html

Sebastian