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Re: DWARF patch to reduce the number of inter-CU refs

From: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
Cc: gcc-patches List <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 16:25:22 -0400
Subject: Re: DWARF patch to reduce the number of inter-CU refs
References: <4FA2E224.8070604@redhat.com> <CAHACq4pJE4zbjyjV=aQUJH7sVDMSqxuonWRf_yFGSs2WmoL07w@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/03/2012 04:17 PM, Cary Coutant wrote:

I believe I was just replicating the existing practice of putting
definitions at the top level, with a DW_AT_specification pointing to a
declaration DIE within the namespace/class hierarchy when necessary.

Yeah, I seem to remember there being a debugger that wanted things that way back in the dawn of time, but it wouldn't support .debug_types anyway. :)

Jason

References:
- DWARF patch to reduce the number of inter-CU refs
  - From: Jason Merrill
- Re: DWARF patch to reduce the number of inter-CU refs
  - From: Cary Coutant

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