If it's dead code, that certainly simplifies things! I've sent a patch for
review to remove the unused, untested code.
https://reviews.llvm.org/D43202
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 1:52 AM, Pavel Labath wrote:
> [ Clang's emission of pubnames/pubtypes is controlled by the "debugger
> tuning" param
> "Pavel" == Pavel Labath via lldb-dev writes:
Pavel> [ Clang's emission of pubnames/pubtypes is controlled by the "debugger
Pavel> tuning" parameter. With -glldb they don't get emitted, with -ggdb,
Pavel> they do.
gdb has never read .debug_pubnames, so this setting doesn't really make
sense
[ Clang's emission of pubnames/pubtypes is controlled by the "debugger
tuning" parameter. With -glldb they don't get emitted, with -ggdb,
they do. (-glldb is default on mac, -ggdb elsewhere). In dwarf5 these
sections have been dropped in favour of the new .debug_names section.
]
On 10 February 201
A quick glance indicates that this is all dead code. I can't see anything that
actually instantiates either of the pubnames classes.
The DWARF pubnames tables were a previous attempt at producing DWARF indexes,
but they didn't contain enough information to actually forstall deep dives into
the
