proposed fix for PR 114
Ben Elliston
bje@au.ibm.com
Thu May 27 04:07:00 GMT 2004
Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com> writes:
> What if instead bfd provided a facility to return in an
> application independent (*) fashion the entire line number
> table for a given address range?
> Then let the app use the data as it sees fit (including
> post-processing the data for its own optimal use).
>
> Such a facility might have general use far beyond just gprof.
>
> (*) and debug format independent
Well, this sounds good. However, I was under the impression that
there would be a lot of resistance to widening the BFD interface. If
that's not the case, then I would be interested in implementing a
function to extract the line number table.
Any comments before I begin? :-)
Ben
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