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Subject: Re: [RFA 2/4] dwarf2_physname
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:46:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <m3ws1k922t.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:03:06 -0700")
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Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> 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). [...]

Could gdb generate those indices for executables without them,
and save them someplace (perhaps even within the executable)?

- FChE