GDB 13 Release 2022-09-11 update
Tom Tromey
tom@tromey.com
Mon Sep 19 23:26:00 GMT 2022
>> My impression is that .gdb_index never really worked correctly for
>> Ada.
Tom> Hmm, I committed 7ab96794115 ("[gdb/symtab] Enable ada .gdb_index").
Wow, I had completely forgotten about this.
I see I even wrote a corresponding documentation patch.
>> So, while that is a regression of sorts, since the feature isn't really
>> usable for Ada in general,
Tom> Um, can you elaborate a bit on why you think that?
Loss of memory.
Is there a bug open for this? Anyway, I will look at it when I look
into the other issues with the new DWARF reader.
I looked and I can't find my patch to change how .debug_names is
constructed. Hopefully that won't be too hard to rewrite. However, I
did find a patch that I had forgotten about that changes .debug_names so
that it can write out a BFD, solving the string table problem (though I
still didn't write the reader side of this).
Tom
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