From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4770 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2002 06:59:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4763 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2002 06:59:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO is.elta.co.il) (199.203.121.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2002 06:59:17 -0000 Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA11003 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:59:16 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:59:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz@is To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Add stabs entries for coalesced symbols. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00483.txt.bz2 Forwarded here, since the original message was sent to the wrong list, and so was my response. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:11:29 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Klee Dienes Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Add stabs entries for coalesced symbols. On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Klee Dienes wrote: > I suspect there may be a better place to "Relocatable Symbol Blocks" > section of the TeXinfo file, but I wasn't able to find it I don't see anything wrong with your choice, but then I'm not a stabs expert. If someone thinks that another place is better, please speak up. Your patch is approved, with the following comments/requests: +@node Relocatable Symbol Blocks +@section Relocatable Symbol Blocks Please add a @cindex entry here for "relocatable symbol blocks". +On Mac OS X, a @dfn{coalesced symbol} is a true definition of a symbol +that may appear one or more times in the compilation units generated +by the compiler. It is generally a good idea to have a @cindex entry for each term you put inside a @dfn. The logic is that if the term is important enough to have it stand out in the manual, someone will want to find its description quickly; using index-search facilities of Info readers is just the way to do that. Also, are coalesced symbols a MacOS-only feature, or are they supported (or can reasonably be expected to be supported in the future) on other platforms? If the former, I think we should tell right at the start of this section that the information pertains only to the Mac. +The static link editor allows multiple definitions of a coalesced +symbol without any warnings or errors. The static link editor outputs ^^^ Please make sure there are exactly 2 spaces after each period that ends a sentence. This is important for TeX to typeset the printed version in a pleasant way. +@item 0x2e N_BNSYM +Start of a relocatble symbolblock; see @ref{Relocatable Symbol Blocks}. ^^^^^^^^^^^ This should be "symbol block", I think. Thanks!