Re: Object attribute tagging

2007-06-19 Thread Richard Earnshaw
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 01:50 +, Joseph S. Myers wrote: The ARM EABI says that only standard entries under aeabi should affect link-compatibility of object files, not vendor entries such as gnu, but in the absence of corresponding standards for other processors I don't think we can avoid

Re: Object attribute tagging

2007-06-19 Thread Eric Christopher
On Jun 18, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: Any comments on either the general approach or the details? Sounds fine to me. In mips land we were previously using named sections to solve this, but as long as the approach allows arbitrarily long sets of attributes I think it sounds

Object attribute tagging

2007-06-18 Thread Joseph S. Myers
The question was raised a while back on the gcc-patches and gdb-patches lists of how GCC should tag objects with some ABI information for the use of GDB, noting that various different methods have been in use http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-05/msg00395.html. Mark suggested

Re: Object attribute tagging

2007-06-18 Thread H. J. Lu
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 01:50:27AM +, Joseph S. Myers wrote: The question was raised a while back on the gcc-patches and gdb-patches lists of how GCC should tag objects with some ABI information for the use of GDB, noting that various different methods have been in use