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From: "vries at gcc dot gnu.org" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: gdb-prs@sourceware.org
Subject: [Bug symtab/30727] [gdb/symtab] Maintenance command to reverse DIE reading order
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:19:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-30727-4717-I8XJxzibzB@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-30727-4717@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30727

--- Comment #2 from Tom de Vries <vries at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Tom Tromey from comment #1)
> I may not be understanding properly, but in general I think
> it's very difficult or impossible to read DIEs in reverse order.
> When starting from the end there is no indication where a DIE begins.

My idea was to do a preliminary scan that finds the dies, stores the offsets in
a list in reverse order, and use that as the iteration order.

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-06 14:51 [Bug symtab/30727] New: " vries at gcc dot gnu.org
2023-08-06 15:04 ` [Bug symtab/30727] " tromey at sourceware dot org
2023-08-06 16:19 ` vries at gcc dot gnu.org [this message]

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