Re: .ident & company (was Re: Basic block profiler out of libgcc)

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:32:27AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:17:16AM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:57:01PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > > Did you strip those binaries first?  80% debug information _including_
> > > .comment I can believe; 80% just .comment, no.

Grrrrrr... "strip -R .comment" apparently means to /also/ remove the .comment
section, not to /only/ remove the .comment section, contrary to documentation
and all common sense.  (Note to self:  never trust binutils documentation.)


> > > If we were to store the command line options, that certainly would
> > > make the .comment section (.note has a defined meaning which is not
> > > that, doesn't it?) a lot bigger...
> > 
> > .note has a defined structure, but a defined meaning.
>                                     ^
> Huh?                                |
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Sorry.                               not

I.e., the layout is strictly defined, but what we choose to use the array
for is up to us.


Phil

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