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Re: RFC Speed up dbxout.c a bit
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> Unfortunately this won't work. Did you test on a target which breaks
> up stab strings? GDB (and probably other consumers) do a similar
> process of only putting the string back together in certain places.
> The majority of the code will fall down if you insert backslashes
> arbitrarily.
Ugh. I guess I didn't test on such a target. Do you know what the
constraints are? If it's a simple rule like 'only at semicolons' it
won't be that hard to do after the fact.
zw