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From: Mark Harmstone <mark@harmstone.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gas: Add CodeView constant for aarch64
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:41:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76bdc320-c6f5-697c-8104-0aff98b2dedc@harmstone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ff4c3c3-3082-cc6a-1a0e-fda8405e554d@suse.com>

Hi Jan,

 > I'd be happy to approve this, but I'd really like to know where this number
 > is coming from.

Have a look at the top of gas/codeview.h, which includes the URL of the GitHub
repository this comes from.

 > (I find it particularly interesting
 > that the wikipedia page on CodeView says "Operating system  MS-DOS",
 > calling out 386 mode and monochrome monitor support as something noteworthy.
 > Nevertheless at the bottom there is "This page was last edited on
 > 25 December 2022, at 04:29 (UTC).")

Yes, CodeView the program is long dead, but its format lives on in the PDBs
generated by MSVC.

Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-26 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-26  0:38 Mark Harmstone
2023-01-26  0:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] gas/testsuite: Add -gcodeview test for aarch64-w64-mingw32 Mark Harmstone
2023-01-26  9:29   ` Jan Beulich
2023-01-26  9:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] gas: Add CodeView constant for aarch64 Jan Beulich
2023-01-26 12:41   ` Mark Harmstone [this message]
2023-01-26 12:53     ` Jan Beulich

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