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Re: Helping out GDB
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: Helping out GDB
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:58:52 +0100
- Cc: dberlin at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: rearnsha at arm dot com
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-To: rearnsha at arm dot com
martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de said:
> Why is that? If the symbols start with __vt_, it's vtable thunks; if
> they start with __vt., it's old-style vtables. Is that difficult to
> tell apart?
Last time I looked, whether "." was a valid character for an object format
was a back-end choice (the assembler may not grok it). In such cases,
either "$" or, in the worst case, "_" is substituted instead. So in
general: No, it isn't enough.
R.