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Re: [RFC] Symbol Separation - Debugging
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 2:47 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Devang Patel wrote:
I am attaching patch that ports symbol separation with this email. It
This patch doesn't include the proposed documentation for the feature.
A
proposed feature can better be reviewed based on a patch with
documentation but no code than on one with code but no documentation.
Patch does not contain documentation as well as test cases. I have both
available on my disk. Documentation describes only two command line
options.
I tried to explain it in more detail in my email message itself. My
intention
was to start discussion based on email and collect different points for
documentation. So at this point my email message is what I have.
Do you like to add or remove something from it ? Is it confusing ?
Once we have finalized content, I will make a .texi and include in my
final
patch with test suite.
This patch only appears to implement the feature for stabs output,
without
explaining why. Is there some reason the approach shouldn't work for
DWARF2, which is generally preferred on GNU systems? (The explanation
might be that DWARF2 isn't used on your system, but you should still
make
clear whether the approach would be applicable to other formats, even
if
someone else is needed to do and test the work for them.)
True DWARF2 is not used by compiler tool chain on my platform. I think,
this can
be used for DWARF2 also.
I attached patch to give in idea of what is symbol separation. I want
to first
get feedback for the symbol separation approach itself.
-Devang