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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Project Archer <archer@sourceware.org>, pmatilai@redhat.com
Subject: Re: find-debuginfo.sh change for gdb index
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:14:00 -0000
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> Roland> I don't quite understand what file this writes to.
> Roland> Is it implicitly "<symfile name>.index" in the argument directory?
> 
> Yes.

Ok.  IMHO it would be better if the command just took the output file name
explicitly.  But whatever.

> Roland> IMHO, the file name should have "gdb" in the name.  
> Roland> This is really not any very generic sort of index for the information.
> 
> Ok.  What do you think of just ".gdb as the suffix?

I don't object, though I'd go with something like '.gdb-index' instead.


Thanks,
Roland