Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] Vendor extensions in .debug_macinfo

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 20:00 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:16:10AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote: > > but wait until the DWARF committee has had an > > opportunity to review the proposal and incorporate it into a future version > > of DWARF. Should you discover a need for an

Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] Vendor extensions in .debug_macinfo

2011-07-20 Thread Michael Eager
On 07/20/2011 11:00 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:16:10AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote: It took me a few days to review the current DWARF macinfo specification and review this proposal. The existing macro data format is clearly in need of revision. I don't think that there

Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] Vendor extensions in .debug_macinfo

2011-07-20 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:16:10AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote: > It took me a few days to review the current DWARF macinfo specification > and review this proposal. > > The existing macro data format is clearly in need of revision. I don't > think that there is any way to modify this format whic

Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] Vendor extensions in .debug_macinfo

2011-07-20 Thread Michael Eager
On 07/13/2011 11:20 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: Hi! The current .debug_macinfo format isn't very much extensible and is not really designed to allow reducing of duplicate debug info, so when compilers want to produce maco information, size of .debug_macinfo is prohibitive. We are discussing some e