From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22095 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2002 06:22:29 -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 22080 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2002 06:22:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (63.201.54.26) by sources.redhat.com with QMTP; 19 Nov 2002 06:22:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 7824 invoked by uid 10); 19 Nov 2002 06:22:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 26743 invoked by uid 500); 19 Nov 2002 06:23:04 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, klee@apple.com To: Klee Dienes Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Add stabs entries for coalesced symbols. References: <147F64EA-FB57-11D6-84AF-00039396EEB8@apple.com> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:22:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <147F64EA-FB57-11D6-84AF-00039396EEB8@apple.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00482.txt.bz2 Klee Dienes writes: > The following patch adds definitions for Mac OS X -style coalesced > symbols to aout/stab.def and stabs.texinfo. For general documentation > on coalesced symbols, search for N_BNSYM in the following link: > > http://web.mit.edu/darwin/src/modules/cctools/RelNotes/ > Private_CompilerTools.html > > I suspect there may be a better place to "Relocatable Symbol Blocks" > section of the TeXinfo file, but I wasn't able to find it; I'm happy > to move it elsewhere in the document if someone can tell me a better > place. Coalesced symbols look quite similar to COMDAT sections (e.g., SEC_LINK_DUPLICATES_DISCARD). They're called coalesced *symbols*, but in BFD terminology they are really *sections*. It would be nice if you mentioned this in your new documentation. Thanks. Ian