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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Mark Harmstone <mark@harmstone.com>
Cc: "binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pdb: Allow loading by gdb
Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 10:56:25 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZGGKQSn6VJIBUVru@squeak.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29be8841-c2c8-9256-42f8-723cd44dfc0c@harmstone.com>

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 02:04:29AM +0100, Mark Harmstone wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Thanks Alan. But `add-symbol-file` is set up to accept object
> files - does this imply that I should change it to treat PDB
> archives as a special case?

I expect that is what should happen, but I'm not a gdb maintainer and
probably shouldn't be giving gdb advice.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-15  1:26 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 [this message]
2023-05-16 15:03     ` Tom Tromey

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