New feature "source-id"

Doug Evans dje@google.com
Tue Mar 18 17:57:00 GMT 2014


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Dawson <bruced@valvesoftware.com> wrote:
> I better understand what you are doing now with the .c file now. Previously I had assumed that you would be compiling it and then linking the .o file along with all of the others.
>
> Now I am confused about *why* you are compiling it. If you have a text file that has the source information then why not just add it as a custom section directly? What is the value in compiling it into a .o file first?

More control over how the data can appear in the resulting section.
It's hardly an issue worth quibbling over.
I will leave it to the app developer / whatever to decide how best to
accomplish this.
The high order bit for me for the task at hand is that gdb doesn't need to care.



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