From: Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: Weimin Pan via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH,V4 2/2] CTF: multi-CU and archive support
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 11:58:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5399d3c-91c0-13e4-5975-ee8fa757bb7a@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2cm8ejz.fsf@tromey.com>
On 5/10/2021 2:27 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> ">" == Wei-min Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com> writes:
>>> Thank you for taking the time. Please see below for some explanation
>>> about CTF and let me know if you need more info.
> Thank you.
>
>>> Where each archive has the CU as its name and ".ctf" as its parent's name
>>> (emitted by the linker.) In terms of psymtabs, there is only one parent
>>> which can have any number of archives.
> I think this will probably yield over-expansion in gdb. What I mean is
> that if any symbol is found in CTF, all types and symbols will be
> expanded. Normally this isn't what you want, though -- you only really
> need or want to expand the psymtab that has the type (or whatever) that
> was asked for.
>
> Normally what you want is for a single psymtab to correspond to a single
> source file. In gdb the dependencies are used for #includes, which I
> guess comes from how stabs were originally implemented.
Or we can treat CTF archives as CUs, as opposed to dependencies.
>
> Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-11 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-27 1:00 [PATCH,V4 0/2] CTF: bug fixes and new features Weimin Pan
2021-04-27 1:00 ` [PATCH,V4 1/2] CTF: fix incorrect function return type Weimin Pan
2021-04-27 1:00 ` [PATCH,V4 2/2] CTF: multi-CU and archive support Weimin Pan
2021-05-07 20:29 ` Tom Tromey
2021-05-10 3:11 ` Wei-min Pan
2021-05-10 21:27 ` Tom Tromey
2021-05-11 0:33 ` Weimin Pan
2021-05-11 18:58 ` Weimin Pan [this message]
2021-05-13 17:21 ` Tom Tromey
2021-05-13 21:40 ` Wei-min Pan
2021-05-08 20:13 ` Tom Tromey
2021-05-10 3:12 ` Wei-min Pan
2021-05-07 20:07 ` [PATCH,V4 1/2] CTF: fix incorrect function return type Tom Tromey
2021-05-10 2:40 ` Wei-min Pan
2021-05-10 14:00 ` Tom Tromey
2021-05-16 22:31 ` Wei-min Pan
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