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Re: [patch] Add printing of .gdb_index section to readelf


On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:26, Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> wrote:
> How does GNU standardization work BTW?

It works by all the relevant people agreeing about keeping things
stable and ideally writing it up in a form which a) can be looked up
by others (perhaps for re-implementation) and b) so they can be held
accountable for incompatible changes.

Roland's point was that this is so far only something that is local to
gdb where no code outside gdb needs to know anything about the format
of the section.  Therefore the gdb people can change it whenever
they'd like.  This in not an unreasonable position since aside from
this possible readelf decoder really nothing needs that data and
therefore any type of "standardization" can only lead to unnecessary
complications.  The best solution in that case is to have gdb provide
the decoder.

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