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Re: [RFA, doc RFA] work around gold/15646


>>>>> "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


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