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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
	       Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>,
	       Sterling Augustine <saugustine@google.com>,
	       Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA] Work around binutils/15021
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130612181619.GA13006@host2.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22QnTxx6Szx6-sp+buS5sKnaGka_GkZJF0JuEpB_uztQCQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:39:43 +0200, Doug Evans wrote:
> The gold "bug" is that, when using pubnames(/pubtypes) to generate the
> index, gold doesn't have sufficient info to generate as "accurate" a
> .gdb_index ("accurate" as in: the CU will have a DW_AT_GNU_pubtypes
> attribute when it would be better if the TU had that attribute).
> If those sections are missing then gold falls back to reading all the
> debug info and using that to generate the index, and when it does that
> it can generate a better index, and I'm guessing that's what you're
> seeing.

I get the same .gdb_index content from gold even when I use -gpubnames.


> There is no change in the file format or semantics between 7 and 8, so
> no change should be needed for dwz.

But I am fine enough with this reply.


Thanks!
Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-12 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-16 23:21 Doug Evans
2013-01-17 17:53 ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-17 18:42   ` Doug Evans
2013-01-17 21:04   ` [RFA, doc RFA] " Doug Evans
2013-01-18  7:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-18 14:32     ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-24 14:59 ` Regressions with dwz [Re: [RFA] Work around binutils/15021] Jan Kratochvil
     [not found]   ` <CADPb22SoND17XeXBL2N+-DXf+yKuWe4PJEXR86qT06-q_LA+7g@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-24 17:16     ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-01-24 19:08       ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-01-30 20:41         ` Tom Tromey
2013-06-09 17:09 ` [RFA] Work around binutils/15021 Jan Kratochvil
2013-06-12  9:49   ` Doug Evans
2013-06-12 18:29     ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2013-06-12 19:50       ` Cary Coutant

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