From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5498 invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2002 14:21:52 -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 5486 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2002 14:21:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO is.elta.co.il) (199.203.121.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2002 14:21:50 -0000 Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA03747; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:21:40 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 06:21:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz@is To: Klee Dienes cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Add stabs entries for coalesced symbols. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00584.txt.bz2 On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Klee Dienes wrote: > [ I should first warn you that I'm by no means an authority on our > implementation of coalesced symbols; my only real experience with them > is teaching GDB to ignore them. ] The doco part is approved, but please correct this line: +@cindex {coalesced symbol} Please remove the {} around the index entry text. > There's no reason they couldn't be supported on other platforms, though > it seems unlikely they would be (since I believe COMDAT sections serve > the same purpose). I thought that starting the section with "On Mac OS > X" and including that in the menu entry was a reasonably clear way to > mark the feature as Mac OS X -specific. I'm certainly willing to > include something stronger, but couldn't think of a way to do it that > didn't seem awkward --- any suggestions? You could add a @footnote saying that currently this feature is supported only on the Mac.