[patch] Add printing of .gdb_index section to readelf
Tom Tromey
tromey at redhat.com
Thu Apr 21 20:28:18 UTC 2011
>>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Drepper <drepper at gmail.com> writes:
Ulrich> Why would you assume this is even possible. The format is exclusively
Ulrich> used by gdb. The gdb people unilaterally make changes. If gdb cannot
Ulrich> read the info in a file it'll ignore it. Versioning all the changes
Ulrich> etc is likely not down nor is it important for gdb. You would have to
Ulrich> put chains on the gdb people before you can add a decoder in elfutils
Ulrich> and I doubt they want that.
We do change this in GDB whenever we need to. Jan has a patch ready
that will introduce version 5.
But... first, we try not to change it, because changes are disruptive.
Second, a change requires a version bump and an update to the
documentation (in the past this was just a comment, but in the future it
will require a change to gdb.texinfo).
Tom
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