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Re: [RFC] Symbol Separation - Debugging

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
To: Devang Patel <dpatel at apple dot com>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:57:00 -0400
Subject: Re: [RFC] Symbol Separation - Debugging
References: <DC270CED-AC0E-11D7-AA9E-000393A91CAA@apple.com> <Pine.LNX.4.56.0307021042070.10118@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> <0F46B2A6-ACA4-11D7-A319-000393A91CAA@apple.com>

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:44:26AM -0700, Devang Patel wrote:
> True DWARF2 is not used by compiler tool chain on my platform. I think, 
> this can
> be used for DWARF2 also.

It can probably be used by DWARF2, but in order to give some of the
more expressive information that DWARF2 is capable of it's going to
need to be a whole lot more complicated.  For instance, if a header
contains an inline function then the generated debug info could
reference that inline function, but generating the reference is tricky. 
Might require both compiler work to read in the debug info and a linker
or DWARF2 extension to specify the references.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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