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Re: [RFA] Add stabs entries for coalesced symbols.
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- To: Klee Dienes <klee at apple dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 18 Nov 2002 22:23:04 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Add stabs entries for coalesced symbols.
- References: <147F64EA-FB57-11D6-84AF-00039396EEB8@apple.com>
Klee Dienes <klee@apple.com> writes:
> The following patch adds definitions for Mac OS X -style coalesced
> symbols to aout/stab.def and stabs.texinfo. For general documentation
> on coalesced symbols, search for N_BNSYM in the following link:
>
> http://web.mit.edu/darwin/src/modules/cctools/RelNotes/
> Private_CompilerTools.html
>
> I suspect there may be a better place to "Relocatable Symbol Blocks"
> section of the TeXinfo file, but I wasn't able to find it; I'm happy
> to move it elsewhere in the document if someone can tell me a better
> place.
Coalesced symbols look quite similar to COMDAT sections (e.g.,
SEC_LINK_DUPLICATES_DISCARD). They're called coalesced *symbols*, but
in BFD terminology they are really *sections*. It would be nice if
you mentioned this in your new documentation. Thanks.
Ian