From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA/DWARF] constant class of DW_AT_high_pc is offset for version >=4 only.
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22TOL_eXEuE322f_5uhY4tAC6ACxEPzQfNM=hh7AYBa+ZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140218184906.GB15835@adacore.com>
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> Note that this might break for DWARF5. See http://dwarfstd.org/ShowIssue.php?issue=120719.1
>
> Interesting. I am curious why you would handle this attribute as
> an offset even when the value is encoded in address form? Would
> that not help improve backward compatibility with older versions
> of DWARF?
I can imagine this is another space saving measure (removes a
relocation, and relocations add up).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-18 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-15 15:40 Joel Brobecker
2014-02-16 19:19 ` Mark Wielaard
2014-02-17 9:19 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-02-18 13:30 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-02-18 16:03 ` Mark Wielaard
2014-02-18 18:49 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-02-18 20:29 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2014-02-18 21:52 ` Mark Wielaard
2014-02-19 7:23 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-02-19 13:44 ` Mark Wielaard
2014-02-21 18:42 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-02-26 10:53 ` Mark Wielaard
2014-02-26 19:45 ` pushed: " Joel Brobecker
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