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Re: [3/4] RFC: add DWARF index support

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:02:47 -0600
Subject: Re: [3/4] RFC: add DWARF index support
References: <m3wrtgp2ak.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20100704181758.GA30603@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <m38w5oeeqv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

Tom> Another idea is to make the user use objcopy to put the new data into
Tom> the objfile.  I am not very fond of this, though.  In my experiments I
Tom> think objcopy had bugs dealing with separate debug files.

For the record, we are addressing this by adding the index to the
objfile before stripping debuginfo.  There's a patch in the elfutils
strip now that recognizes ".gdb_index" as a debug section.

Tom

References:
- Re: [3/4] RFC: add DWARF index support
  - From: Jan Kratochvil
- Re: [3/4] RFC: add DWARF index support
  - From: Tom Tromey

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