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[RFC] Proposal for a new DWARF name index section

From: Dodji Seketeli <dodji at redhat dot com>
To: GDB/Archer list <archer at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:04:13 +0200
Subject: [RFC] Proposal for a new DWARF name index section

Hello,

Tom Tromey and myself thought about possible ways to help GDB achieve
faster name lookups by trying as much as possible to load some debug
information in a lazy manner.

The DWARF 3 and 4 specifications address that need by mean of the
.debug_pubnames and .debug_pubtypes sections. However, we believe that the
content of these sections falls short in several ways.

The attached (simple) proposal is an attempt to address those issues.

Comments ?

Thanks.

-- 
Dodji Seketeli
Red Hat

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