[PATCH 1/2] pdb: Allow loading by gdb

Tom Tromey tom@tromey.com
Tue May 16 15:03:54 GMT 2023


>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Harmstone <mark@harmstone.com> writes:

Mark> On 10/5/23 01:56, Alan Modra wrote:
>> I think you'd be better off staying with just one format, and
>> bfd_archive probably fits pdb files better than bfd_object.

Mark> Thanks Alan. But `add-symbol-file` is set up to accept object
Mark> files - does this imply that I should change it to treat PDB
Mark> archives as a special case?

It seems fine to me as long as add-symbol-file doesn't end up letting
users supply ".a" files.

I guess I'd expect the usual approach to be something more automatic
though?

Tom


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