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Re: [commit] Improved linker-debugger interface
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:03:20 -0700
- Subject: Re: [commit] Improved linker-debugger interface
- References: <20130516144340 dot GA2105 at blade dot nx> <20130604133819 dot GA25892 at blade dot nx> <20130625205350 dot GA28973 at adacore dot com> <m3obatx5b3 dot fsf at redhat dot com>
Hi Sergio,
> I am looking into this issue right away.
Wow, thanks! Don't feel compeled to look at it. It would take me more
time to investigate as I'm not familiar with this area, but I'm still
happy to do it.
> The second thing is the warning. It is issues by Gary's patch, and I
> agree that it could confuse users. However, I think it is still a good
> thing to have. Maybe one could create a debug flag that would enable
> printing such warnings? Just an idea.
I agree that an informative message on the command line would be useful,
and the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the warning is that
we should be mimicking what we're doing for libthread_db.
But also, I think what we will be doing will also depend on how we see
the future. I get the impression with this warning that we eventually
expect all GNU/Linux systems to all provide whatever feature is needed
for the improved method to work. But solib-svr4 is used on other
platforms too - do we expect it to be the default on those as well?
> I will get back to you when I have more news about what's going on with
> the SDT parser.
Thanks again, I really appreciate that!
--
Joel