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symtab/1332: Deprecate sym_private data in objfiles
- From: ac131313 at redhat dot com
- To: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 12 Aug 2003 19:43:37 -0000
- Subject: symtab/1332: Deprecate sym_private data in objfiles
- Reply-to: ac131313 at redhat dot com
>Number: 1332
>Category: symtab
>Synopsis: Deprecate sym_private data in objfiles
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: maintenance
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 12 19:48:00 UTC 2003
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>Originator: ac131313@redhat.com
>Release: unknown-1.0
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>Description:
Elena writes:
Mark Kettenis writes:
> This patch adds a per-objfile data mechanism to GDB, and uses that to
> store DWARF2 frame info instead of abusing objfile->sym_private. The
> latter could lead to problems on certain platforms according to
> Daniel.
yes, xcoffread and coffread heavily rely on the sym_private field.
>
> Comments? OK to check this in? Do we want this on the release branch
> too?
>
Seems ok. I really like the idea of getting rid of the other *_private
and stab only data stuff.
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