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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Handle DWARF 5 separate debug sections
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 07:37:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jz8dgrjh.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4301b473-7127-4c95-9f7a-d938f1bdb868@simark.ca> (Simon Marchi's message of "Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:52:59 -0400")

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> writes:

>> +  if (*buildid_len != 0)
>> +    buildid->reset ((bfd_byte *) xmemdup (contents, *buildid_len,
>> +					  *buildid_len));

Simon> Could we return a view inside the section, instead of copying the bytes?
Simon> It seems like we are just copying the bytes as is.

In this code, the section isn't mapped but instead just read in and then
discarded.  That's done because it's only needed for a moment while
reading -- once the file is found the .debug_sup contents aren't needed.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-25 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-23 19:19 [PATCH 0/3] Support DWARF 5 .debug_sup section Tom Tromey
2025-03-23 19:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] Remove 'read' call from dwz_file::read_string Tom Tromey
2025-03-24 14:25   ` Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova
2025-03-24 20:30   ` Simon Marchi
2025-03-24 20:52     ` Tom Tromey
2025-03-23 19:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] Handle DWARF 5 separate debug sections Tom Tromey
2025-03-24 15:45   ` Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova
2025-03-24 17:16     ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-03 14:39       ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-22 14:55         ` Tom Tromey
2025-04-22 15:10           ` Simon Marchi
2025-04-28 11:35             ` Tom de Vries
2025-03-24 20:52   ` Simon Marchi
2025-03-25 13:37     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2025-03-23 19:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add "-5" flag to cc-with-tweaks Tom Tromey

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