Re: AIX DWARF debugging sections

Joel Brobecker
2015-10-13T16:45:29Z

> For full sentences, we might as well document it more completely.

Good idea. The patch looks good to me.

> diff --git a/gdb/xcoffread.c b/gdb/xcoffread.c
> index 0d49751..e4af37c 100644
> --- a/gdb/xcoffread.c
> +++ b/gdb/xcoffread.c
> @@ -159,11 +159,14 @@ static const struct dwarf2_debug_sections dwarf2_xcoff_nam
> es = {
> { ".dwabrev", NULL },
> { ".dwline", NULL },
> { ".dwloc", NULL },
> - { NULL, NULL }, /* debug_macinfo */
> - { NULL, NULL }, /* debug_macro */
> + /* AIX XCOFF defines one, named DWARF section for macro debug information.
> + XLC does not generate debug_macinfo for DWARF4 and below.
> + The section is assigned to debug_macro for DWARF5 and above. */
> + { NULL, NULL },
> + { ".dwmac", NULL },
> { ".dwstr", NULL },
> { ".dwrnges", NULL },
> - { NULL, NULL }, /* debug_types */
> + { ".dwpbtyp", NULL },
> { NULL, NULL }, /* debug_addr */
> { ".dwframe", NULL },
> { NULL, NULL }, /* eh_frame */

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Joel