From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29816 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2004 17:00:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 29806 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2004 17:00:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.9) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 14 Oct 2004 17:00:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 13491 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2004 17:00:29 -0000 Received: from taltos.codesourcery.com (zack@66.92.218.83) by mail.codesourcery.com with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 14 Oct 2004 17:00:29 -0000 Received: by taltos.codesourcery.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:00:29 -0700 To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: RFC Speed up dbxout.c a bit References: <877jptn0qm.fsf@codesourcery.com> <20041014132402.GA8948@nevyn.them.org> From: Zack Weinberg Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:04:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20041014132402.GA8948@nevyn.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:24:03 -0400") Message-ID: <87u0sxkzf6.fsf@codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg01194.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > Unfortunately this won't work. Did you test on a target which breaks > up stab strings? GDB (and probably other consumers) do a similar > process of only putting the string back together in certain places. > The majority of the code will fall down if you insert backslashes > arbitrarily. Ugh. I guess I didn't test on such a target. Do you know what the constraints are? If it's a simple rule like 'only at semicolons' it won't be that hard to do after the fact. zw