[PATCH] D82367: [ObjectYAML][ELF] Add support for emitting the .debug_gnu_pubnames/pubtypes sections.

[David Blaikie via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

dblaikie added a comment.

In D82367#3133081 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D82367#3133081>, @clayborg wrote:

> Is ".debug_gnu_pubtypes" different and/or better than the old ".debug_pubtypes" in terms of contents? AFAIK all debuggers completely ignore these sections as they don't contain all types (only public types). I did a quick web search for ".debug_gnu_pubtypes" and didn't find any docs or anything documenting this format.

My general understanding is that GCC/GDB folks implemented .debug_gnu_pubnames(/types) because of the lack of guarantees in debug_pubnames(/types) - GCC does consume/rely on these sections (& gold can produce .gdb_index from these gnu_pub* sections - which is /necessary/ for correctness of gdb when using Split DWARF, in fact).

I'm guessing like lots of stuff, it's probably basically defined by the agreement between GCC and GDB - and Clang/LLVM just tries to implement gnu_pub* to be as compatible as possible with that.


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