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Re: next tasks


Roland McGrath wrote:
> In the meantime, I think the new thing for you to work on this week is the
> "smart reader" hooks (now DwarfTasks 4.2).  That does not have other
> prerequisites from me holding it up.  It should naturally mix in well with
> the tail end of the dwarflint reloc work, as that is used in its testing plan.
> 
> Do the new libdw C hooks on a separate branch for now.  (It would be nice
> to make it a fork from master, but if it's easier to hack on it using a
> fork from dwarf, that is fine too.)  We'll review those hook details
> carefully before merging C changes.  When they are in shape, my plan is to
> merge into master the use of the hooks in the libdw C code, with just stub
> definitions of the hooks.  That will keep it easy to maintain use of the
> hooks in the C code on master and e.g. be sure to use them if we merge the
> CFI support to master, though they will be inline stubs that compile away.
> The real definitions of the hooks will come later on the dwarf branch only.

I'm on it.  Will commit something later today, so that you can comment 
on if you want.

But browsing through the source I realized another thing: block forms 
can contain relocatable data.  What with these?  Shall libdw handle them 
too?  I suspect it has to, client doesn't know about reloc hooks...

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