Re: New feature "source-id"

Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16T16:34:49Z

> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 09:22:17 -0700
> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Cc: Gerhard Gappmeier <gerhard.gappmeier@ascolab.com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> another way to go is to just have a convention for some global
> variables in the binary.
> With the debug info gdb can access them, and they could contain
> everything that would be in the .note section.

This would have an advantage of not being dependent on the ELF format
of the object files.