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.