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From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: Adrian Prantl <aprantl@apple.com>
Cc: Eric Christopher <echristo@gmail.com>,
	Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	       Jordan Rupprecht <rupprecht@google.com>,
	       gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	       David Blaikie <dblaikie@gmail.com>,
	Douglas Evans <dje@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [dwarf2read] Fix crash when loading dwp files: calculate num_sections based on actual section indices, not just the number of sections.
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <de54f0a6328085b348dcd3815c6249b3@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43BCD0FD-28C3-49E5-B7CB-4E18ACFBA646@apple.com>

On 2019-02-27 13:05, Adrian Prantl wrote:
> Split DWARF solves a problem that doesn't exist on Darwin (macOS/iOS,
> ...). The motivation behind split DWARF is to reduce the number of
> relocations in debug info that have to be processed by the linker. But
> on Darwin, debug info is not processed by the linker at all, instead a
> tool called dsymutil (cf. llvm/tools/dsymutil) serves a conceptually
> similar task to dwp and archives the debug info from the .o files into
> a .dSYM bundle, separate from the executable.
> 
> -- adrian

Ok, thanks to both of you for confirming.  I think we are fine using the 
elf-specific function.

Simon


  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-27 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-23  0:54 Jordan Rupprecht via gdb-patches
2019-02-24  4:01 ` Simon Marchi
2019-02-25 20:17   ` Jordan Rupprecht via gdb-patches
2019-02-25 20:21     ` Simon Marchi
2019-02-25 20:21     ` Jordan Rupprecht via gdb-patches
2019-02-25 20:55       ` Simon Marchi
2019-02-25 21:22         ` Jordan Rupprecht via gdb-patches
2019-02-26 15:08         ` Tom Tromey
2019-02-26 16:24           ` Simon Marchi
2019-02-27  4:41             ` Simon Marchi
2019-02-27 17:22               ` Tom Tromey
2019-02-27 17:40                 ` Simon Marchi
2019-02-27 17:56                   ` Eric Christopher
2019-02-27 18:06                     ` Adrian Prantl
2019-02-27 18:13                       ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2019-02-27 19:33                       ` David Blaikie

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