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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] dwarf2read.c: handle alternate dwarf2 debug sections name.
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ei3p4f39.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306146544-3925-3-git-send-email-gingold@adacore.com> (Tristan	Gingold's message of "Mon, 23 May 2011 12:29:02 +0200")

>>>>> "Tristan" == Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:

Tristan> Unfortunately, some object file format cannot accept the
Tristan> standard dwarf2 debug section names.  This is in particular the
Tristan> case of XCOFF (aix), which has only 8 chars section names.  In
Tristan> order to support dwarf2 on aix, we need to allow alternate
Tristan> section names.

It seems reasonable to me, but I would like to understand why you took
this route, rather than the section-name-remapping approach taken by
bfd/mach-o.c.

The mach-o approach has the nice quality that it is encapsulated in BFD.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-23 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23 10:29 [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix) Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] bfd.c: hancle aixcoff in bfd_get_sign_extend_vma Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] Really make dwarf2_get_section_info public Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:15   ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 12:41     ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] dwarf2read.c: handle alternate dwarf2 debug sections name Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:22   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-05-23 15:32     ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:40   ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-26  7:48     ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] aix: add support for dwarf2 Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:35   ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-23 15:42     ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-23 15:47       ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:50   ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24  7:20     ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-24 13:37       ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 13:44         ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-24 14:56           ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 15:11             ` Tristan Gingold
2011-06-01 15:37         ` Tristan Gingold
2011-06-02 19:11           ` Tom Tromey
2011-06-07 12:32             ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 16:00 ` [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix) Yao Qi
2011-05-24  7:06   ` Tristan Gingold

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