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Re: macros, debug information, and parse_macro_definition



On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Andrew Cagney wrote:



These encodings are simple enough that I wouldn't expect them to
change over time.
I would think it more likely that there would be a bug, either in
gcc's encoding of them or in gdb's processing of them.  And if the
code is duplicated, then both locations need to be modified to fix the
bug -- with the attendant risk that someone will modify one and forget
to modify the other.  Or will modify it, but accidentally make it
slightly different.


I don't know how people would feel about having STABS have a
description of the encoding combined with a caveat that the DWARF
2.0.0 spec is authoritative.  I would certainly prefer that the STABS
document remain self contained.

I think this is a good strategy. It's already a ``gcc extension'', and stealing an existing (known to be working) spec is always a good strategy :-)


Have you thought about link time information compression? One of the complaints leveled at the macro stuff is the size of the resultant debug info.

It's trivial to do macro information compression, unlike normal dwarf2 info compression, because the macro info has no references. It is what it is. With a smart algorithm (it's a bit tricky to keep the semantics the same after merging all the macro infos), you could simply take all the macro infos, merge them, make one macro info, and point all the debug sections at it.
I think, anyway.



Andrew





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