From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17894 invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2009 18:06:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 17885 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Nov 2009 18:06:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:05:04 +0000 Received: from int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nANI52m4008441 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:02 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nANI52Op032233; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:02 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nANI507v025479; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:01 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 89C9037824C; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:05:00 -0700 (MST) From: Tom Tromey To: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA 2/4] dwarf2_physname References: <4B0707E7.5010308@uglyboxes.com> <20091120220927.GA9589@caradoc.them.org> Reply-To: Tom Tromey Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:06:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Frank Ch. Eigler's message of "Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:45:50 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 2009-11/txt/msg00499.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Frank" == Frank Ch Eigler writes: >> [...] This work won't help with existing code, though, because it >> relies on indices we don't have access to (even if we use the >> standard DWARF ones, those are unusable with older versions of >> GCC). [...] Frank> Could gdb generate those indices for executables without them, Frank> and save them someplace (perhaps even within the executable)? It would be possible. I'm not sure I would want gdb to do this, though. A separate program to do it seems more appropriate. Tom