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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: DWARF5 and .gdb_index/.debug_names
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 20:16:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c0a30d2b-a40f-b591-780f-6b37fb6f32e3@palves.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e56fb5e13a0e04a40fc1c88205d3c0eaaa71919a.camel@klomp.org>

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.  

Pedro Alves

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-01 19:16 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 [this message]
2020-09-01 22:00   ` Eric Christopher
2020-09-14 15:23 ` Gaius Mulley

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