From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19329 invoked by alias); 21 Jul 2009 00:10:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 19301 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Jul 2009 00:10:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (216.239.45.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:10:26 +0000 Received: from spaceape10.eur.corp.google.com (spaceape10.eur.corp.google.com [172.28.16.144]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id n6L0ANi5001070; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:10:23 -0700 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (andd40.prod.google.com [10.100.30.40]) by spaceape10.eur.corp.google.com with ESMTP id n6L0AKcm025611; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:10:20 -0700 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so1208959and.40 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:10:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.135.9 with SMTP id i9mr6936338and.169.1248135019794; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:10:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1248134235.8878.0.camel@helios> References: <20090716205428.8CCBB846E6@localhost> <1248134235.8878.0.camel@helios> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFA] Add dwarf4 values to include/dwarf2.h From: Cary Coutant To: Ben Elliston Cc: Doug Evans , binutils@sourceware.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-07/txt/msg00501.txt.bz2 >> 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