[PATCH 2/2 v2] Generalize cu_sec_idx

Ulf Hermann ulf.hermann@qt.io
Thu Dec 14 13:53:00 GMT 2017


On 12/14/2017 02:51 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> This is clever and indeed cu_sec_idx () is not generic enough.
> But this is also somewhat inefficient. I am working on DWARF5 support
> and there a CU can come from even more different sections (or file). So
> I am changing Dwarf_CU to have an explicit section to which is it is
> associated. This can then also be used by the "fake" CUs like created
> in dwarf_getmacros.

Mind that the two most common cases are 0 and 1. In fact nothing else was supported before this change. So, most of the time this will not do a lot of iteration.

regards,
Ulf



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