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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Mark Harmstone <mark@harmstone.com>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>,
	 "binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>,
	 gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pdb: Allow loading by gdb
Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 09:03:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87353w2u91.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29be8841-c2c8-9256-42f8-723cd44dfc0c@harmstone.com> (Mark Harmstone's message of "Mon, 15 May 2023 02:04:29 +0100")

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Harmstone <mark@harmstone.com> writes:

Mark> On 10/5/23 01:56, Alan Modra wrote:
>> I think you'd be better off staying with just one format, and
>> bfd_archive probably fits pdb files better than bfd_object.

Mark> Thanks Alan. But `add-symbol-file` is set up to accept object
Mark> files - does this imply that I should change it to treat PDB
Mark> archives as a special case?

It seems fine to me as long as add-symbol-file doesn't end up letting
users supply ".a" files.

I guess I'd expect the usual approach to be something more automatic
though?

Tom

      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-16 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20230509003247.24156-1-mark@harmstone.com>
2023-05-10  0:56 ` Alan Modra
2023-05-15  1:04   ` Mark Harmstone
2023-05-15  1:26     ` Alan Modra
2023-05-16 15:03     ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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