From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Pass section index to start_compunit_symtab
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:02:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmbbzekb.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56ff147d-d09f-2093-efac-50b1eee555d0@simark.ca> (Simon Marchi's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:55:18 -0500")
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> writes:
>> + SECTION_INDEX is the index of the section for the compunit and
>> + for block symbols in this compunit. Normally SECT_OFF_TEXT. */
Simon> I don't understand this comment, specifically how a compunit can "have"
Simon> a single section. Don't compunits define data and text symbols, which
Simon> have different sections, for instance?
I can reword it, this only refers to the section for blocks. See
compunit_symtab::m_block_line_section.
Simon> I'm curious to know why we have to store that and we can't always use
Simon> SECT_OFF_TEXT, but I guess that will come with the following patches.
I suspect this is dead code, I just didn't change it in this series.
I could though if you'd prefer.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-18 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-18 15:30 [PATCH 0/6] Change how symbol section indices are set Tom Tromey
2023-01-18 15:30 ` [PATCH 1/6] Use default section indexes in fixup_symbol_section Tom Tromey
2023-01-18 17:19 ` Simon Marchi
2023-01-18 19:13 ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-18 15:30 ` [PATCH 2/6] Set section indices when symbols are made Tom Tromey
2023-01-18 21:43 ` Simon Marchi
2023-01-18 22:00 ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-18 15:30 ` [PATCH 3/6] Pass section index to start_compunit_symtab Tom Tromey
2023-01-18 21:55 ` Simon Marchi
2023-01-18 22:02 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2023-01-18 22:06 ` Simon Marchi
2023-01-19 13:36 ` Tom Tromey
2023-02-08 16:28 ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-18 15:30 ` [PATCH 4/6] Set section index when setting a symbol's block Tom Tromey
2023-01-18 15:30 ` [PATCH 5/6] Remove most calls to fixup_symbol_section Tom Tromey
2023-01-18 15:30 ` [PATCH 6/6] Merge fixup_section and fixup_symbol_section Tom Tromey
2023-02-08 16:28 ` [PATCH 0/6] Change how symbol section indices are set Tom Tromey
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