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Re: Requested PROPOSAL(S) regarding multisection location and ranges lists
- To: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Requested PROPOSAL(S) regarding multisection location and ranges lists
- From: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:09:06 -0800
- CC: Ron 603-884-2088 <brender at gemgrp dot zko dot dec dot com>, DWARF2 at corp dot sgi dot com
- References: <01012408591978@gemgrp.zko.dec.com> <u9snm8v9nj.fsf@casey.cambridge.redhat.com>
- Reply-To: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
Jason Merrill wrote:
>
> It seems unreasonably redundant to have:
>
> A list of address ranges in .debug_aranges
> A list of address ranges in AT_ranges
> A list of address range beginnings in AT_base_addresses
>
> What was the problem with just using .debug_aranges, again?
.debug_aranges is an optional section. Previous proposals would
have changed it into a required section. It was the general opinion
that the location lists in the main body of the Dwarf 2 data should
be complete, not split between the .debug and .debug_aranges sections.
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