From: Eric Christopher <echristo@gmail.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: DWARF5 and .gdb_index/.debug_names
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 18:00:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALehDX61GtycMuGxOKQ1b2wJW2FcgcZgVd4trJvvePNXYA9kUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0a30d2b-a40f-b591-780f-6b37fb6f32e3@palves.net>
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 3:17 PM Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> wrote:
> On 8/30/20 6:18 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > dwz does support .gdb_index rewriting, but doesn't know about
> > .debug_names yet. So could we as a first step, when switching the
> > DWARF5 keep using .gdb_index? At least till any issues with gdb
> > .debug_names are resolved and dwz supports it?
>
> I'm not aware of anything that would force use of DWARF5 to also
> imply use of .debug_names, or that would prevent using .gdb_index.
> AFAIK, we can treat them as orthogonal.
>
>
Exactly. :)
debug_names was an attempt to get a "this is one documented way to do it
that doesn't contain debugger internals" rather than anything endemic to
dwarf5.
-eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-01 22:00 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
2020-09-01 18:53 ` David Blaikie
2020-09-01 19:16 ` Pedro Alves
2020-09-01 22:00 ` Eric Christopher [this message]
2020-09-14 15:23 ` Gaius Mulley
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