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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The 'cold' function attribute and GDB
Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 02:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190501195113.69aea752@f30-4.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <077aee8c-7bef-bad6-a6a1-e69f116cc18b@simark.ca>

On Wed, 1 May 2019 16:17:04 -0400
Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> wrote:
 
> In an ideal world, if gcc generates two separate ranges
> of instruction for this function (the hot path and the cold path), it should describe
> it as two ranges in the entry for print_vectorlike.  If so, it should be described with
> a DW_AT_ranges attribute.

Yes, this is exactly right.

[...] 
> Also, which commit of GDB is this with?  I recall some patches related to non-contiguous
> address ranges not too long ago.

As I recall, I committed the non-contiguous address range stuff in
late August of 2018.  It might be the case that 8.3 will be the first
release to include that support.  Any build based on a commit to
master since 2018-08-24 should have this support.

I think I need to write some small programs which use the 'cold'
attribute to see what the DWARF looks like.  I was unaware of this
attribute prior to reading Eli's message on this matter.  If it can
be avoided, I (too) would prefer to not add a special case for handling
cold minimal symbols.

Kevin


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-02  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-01 18:59 Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-01 20:17 ` Simon Marchi
2019-05-02  2:51   ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2019-05-02  6:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02  7:26       ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-02 15:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 15:59           ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-02 16:46             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 18:08               ` Simon Marchi
2019-05-02 18:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 18:55                   ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-02 19:32                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 19:51                       ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-02  7:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02  7:38       ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-02 15:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 15:56           ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-02 16:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 18:25           ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-02 18:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 19:13               ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-02 19:28                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 19:45                   ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-02 19:56                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 23:30                       ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-04  8:30                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-05 20:04                           ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-06 15:33                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-06 16:24                               ` Kevin Buettner
2019-05-02 15:17       ` Eli Zaretskii

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