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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