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From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>
To: Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>,
	binutils@sourceware.org,         gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Add dwarf4 values to include/dwarf2.h
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c17be2b30907201710n4eaff1a0h773a14788e7c2581@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248134235.8878.0.camel@helios>

>> This patch adds various dwarf4 elements, plus DW_AT_GNU_odr_signature,
>> to include/dwarf2.h.
>
> Should this file even be called dwarf2.h any more?

DWARF-2 was so different from DWARF-1, it was essentially a new
format, so it made sense at the time. DWARF-3 and DWARF-4 are just
mostly-compatible extensions of DWARF-2, and updating the name for
each new revision would only be counterproductive. Just think of it as
"dwarf2+.h".

-cary


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-21  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-16 21:19 Doug Evans
2009-07-20 23:57 ` Doug Evans
2009-07-21  1:33 ` Ben Elliston
2009-07-21  1:35   ` Cary Coutant [this message]
     [not found] <20090716205428.8CCBB846E6__41074.7728696608$1247777706$gmane$org@localhost>
2009-07-17  0:02 ` Tom Tromey
2009-07-17  7:27   ` Doug Evans

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