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Re: [RFC] Proposal for a new DWARF name index section
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
- Cc: Dodji Seketeli <dodji at redhat dot com>, "GDB\/Archer list" <archer at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:56:02 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Proposal for a new DWARF name index section
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- Reply-to: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
>>>>> "Cary" == Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> writes:
Cary> Now how will gdb know whether or not the pubnames index actually has
Cary> all of this extra info? A suggestion to have gdb look at the producer
Cary> string was shot down as ugly, but compare that to the alternative of
Cary> using a non-standard index. You could instead tie it to the switch to
Cary> DWARF-4 and just check the section version number in the compilation
Cary> unit header (the version number for .debug_pubnames isn't scheduled to
Cary> change with DWARF-4, unfortunately). Another alternative is just to
Cary> have gdb use the pubnames index if it's present, and any name that
Cary> isn't in the index simply won't be found without qualification.
It occurred to me today that we could define a GNU-local attribute that
GCC (and whatever DWARF-rewriting tool we come up with to generate the
indices post-facto) can put into the CU DIE.
What do you think of that?
Tom