Re: Branch created for inter-compilation-unit references

Andrew Cagney
2004-02-25T02:23:47Z

[I dropped the nameless r6k, they bounced my e-mail]

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:35:15PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>>>> >I will start submitting preliminary patches, those which can also act
>>>> >as bug-fixes or optimizations to the current dwarf2 code, tonight or
>>>> >tomorrow. Merging the branch may have to wait until after GDB 6.1.
>>>> >Personally, I'd love for it to be included, since the sooner we release
>>>> >a GDB that can understand this data the sooner GCC can emit it by
>>>> >default; but I want at least some more testing on the branch before
>>>> >I suggest that. My timing for this project was somewhat unfortunate.
>>
>>>
>>> Er, given that GCC 3.4 branch is emiting DW_OP_piece, isn't that more
>>> urgent?
>
>
> Probably. As I said, I try to do large projects roughly FIFO, and this
> has been on my TODO list a lot longer than DW_OP_piece has.

> If you're interested in DW_OP_piece support for 6.1, I can certainly
> look into it after this is done. It will probably be less work. I
> don't want to try to juggle two large dwarf2 projects at the same time,
> though.

In terms of getting ICU "done", talk about bad timing. I suspect
everyone's concentration is as directed towards 6.1 and other more
urgent issues - this right now is far from peoples minds (I've, for
instance, been simply deleting your patches).

Andrew