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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Bruce Dawson <bruced@valvesoftware.com>
Cc: Gerhard Gappmeier <gerhard.gappmeier@ascolab.com>,
	gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: New feature "source-id"
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22SF2Fs2k2VZHwtAoSHB=UC+tQ_3-hFTOEfEAx7dCfe-Gw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2AC155A009400B4C8B05D518E4819AEF1A347F4C@exchange10.valvesoftware.com>

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Dawson <bruced@valvesoftware.com> wrote:
> I better understand what you are doing now with the .c file now. Previously I had assumed that you would be compiling it and then linking the .o file along with all of the others.
>
> Now I am confused about *why* you are compiling it. If you have a text file that has the source information then why not just add it as a custom section directly? What is the value in compiling it into a .o file first?

More control over how the data can appear in the resulting section.
It's hardly an issue worth quibbling over.
I will leave it to the app developer / whatever to decide how best to
accomplish this.
The high order bit for me for the task at hand is that gdb doesn't need to care.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-18 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-15 10:49 Gerhard Gappmeier
2014-03-15 17:32 ` Doug Evans
2014-03-15 20:06   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16  2:34     ` Doug Evans
2014-03-16  9:43       ` Gerhard Gappmeier
2014-03-16 16:22       ` Doug Evans
2014-03-16 16:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-17  8:49         ` Gerhard Gappmeier
2014-03-17 12:25           ` Matt Rice
2014-03-17 19:01             ` Gerhard Gappmeier
2014-03-18  0:25               ` Doug Evans
2014-03-18  0:48                 ` Bruce Dawson
2014-03-18  1:39                   ` Doug Evans
2014-03-18 17:44                     ` Bruce Dawson
2014-03-18 17:57                       ` Doug Evans [this message]
2014-03-18 13:22 ` Mark Wielaard
2014-03-18 14:00   ` Gerhard Gappmeier
2014-03-18 15:03     ` Mark Wielaard
2014-03-18 16:40       ` Gerhard Gappmeier
2014-03-18 17:56         ` Bruce Dawson
2014-05-21 19:30           ` Tom Tromey
2014-05-21 20:42             ` Bruce Dawson

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