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Re: [RFA, doc RFA] work around gold/15646
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:53:42 -0600
- Subject: Re: [RFA, doc RFA] work around gold/15646
- References: <yjt28v25ixqi dot fsf at ruffy dot mtv dot corp dot google dot com>
>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:
Doug> This patch works around gold/15646.
Doug> Basically, gold can add multiple copies of global syms to the index
Doug> whereas gdb only adds one. The workaround is easy enough,
Doug> just ignore global instances of a sym after the first one.
It seems reasonable to me.
Doug> +Here is a brief history of @code{.gdb_index} versions.
Doug> +
Doug> +@itemize @bullet
Doug> +@item
Doug> +Versions 1, 2 and 3 are obsolete.
Doug> +@item
Doug> +Version 4 is the oldest supported version.
Doug> +@item
Doug> +Version 5 introduces a different hashing function to support
Doug> +case-insensitive systems.
I think this should say "case-insensitive languages" or something like
that. I think "systems" is too easily confused with filesystem issues;
but really this was about handling Fortran.
Tom