From: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] dwarf2read.c: handle alternate dwarf2 debug sections name.
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29F862D3-A02A-4743-B8A3-269B858532BF@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ei3p4f39.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On May 23, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Tristan" == Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:
>
> Tristan> Unfortunately, some object file format cannot accept the
> Tristan> standard dwarf2 debug section names. This is in particular the
> Tristan> case of XCOFF (aix), which has only 8 chars section names. In
> Tristan> order to support dwarf2 on aix, we need to allow alternate
> Tristan> section names.
>
> It seems reasonable to me, but I would like to understand why you took
> this route, rather than the section-name-remapping approach taken by
> bfd/mach-o.c.
>
> The mach-o approach has the nice quality that it is encapsulated in BFD.
Simply because the XCOFF maintainer was against this approach:
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-04/msg00364.html
Both approach make sense...
Thank you for the reviews.
Tristan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-23 10:29 [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix) Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] bfd.c: hancle aixcoff in bfd_get_sign_extend_vma Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] Really make dwarf2_get_section_info public Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:15 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 12:41 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] dwarf2read.c: handle alternate dwarf2 debug sections name Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:22 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-23 15:32 ` Tristan Gingold [this message]
2011-05-23 15:40 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-26 7:48 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] aix: add support for dwarf2 Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:35 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-23 15:42 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-23 15:47 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:50 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 7:20 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-24 13:37 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 13:44 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-24 14:56 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 15:11 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-06-01 15:37 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-06-02 19:11 ` Tom Tromey
2011-06-07 12:32 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 16:00 ` [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix) Yao Qi
2011-05-24 7:06 ` Tristan Gingold
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