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Re: [RFA] Add stabs entries for coalesced symbols.
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- 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: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:21:40 +0200 (IST)
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Add stabs entries for coalesced symbols.
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Klee Dienes wrote:
> [ I should first warn you that I'm by no means an authority on our
> implementation of coalesced symbols; my only real experience with them
> is teaching GDB to ignore them. ]
The doco part is approved, but please correct this line:
+@cindex {coalesced symbol}
Please remove the {} around the index entry text.
> There's no reason they couldn't be supported on other platforms, though
> it seems unlikely they would be (since I believe COMDAT sections serve
> the same purpose). I thought that starting the section with "On Mac OS
> X" and including that in the menu entry was a reasonably clear way to
> mark the feature as Mac OS X -specific. I'm certainly willing to
> include something stronger, but couldn't think of a way to do it that
> didn't seem awkward --- any suggestions?
You could add a @footnote saying that currently this feature is supported
only on the Mac.