From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: DWARF5 and .gdb_index/.debug_names
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:38:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sdt736g.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e56fb5e13a0e04a40fc1c88205d3c0eaaa71919a.camel@klomp.org> (Mark Wielaard's message of "Sun, 30 Aug 2020 19:18:51 +0200")
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
Mark> During the BoF Pedro mentioned that the GDB DWARF5 .debug_names support
Mark> is incomplete/wrong. I was wondering whether there was a good
Mark> description of the issue and/or a bug report for it.
It's been a while but last time I looked I thought gdb's process emitted
incorrect names. I filed this bug, with analysis:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24820
gdb's reader probably also needs updating, since it relies on this same
incorrect reading of the standard.
Having gdb write the index is mildly bad anyway. It should be in the
linker, and/or dwz or debuginfod. Putting it in gdb back in the
.gdb_index days was a mistake.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-01 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-30 17:18 Mark Wielaard
2020-08-31 7:21 ` Tom de Vries
2020-08-31 8:28 ` Jan Kratochvil
2020-09-01 3:07 ` David Blaikie
2020-09-01 18:38 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2020-09-01 18:53 ` David Blaikie
2020-09-01 19:16 ` Pedro Alves
2020-09-01 22:00 ` Eric Christopher
2020-09-14 15:23 ` Gaius Mulley
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