On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:18, Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com> wrote:
> A more "end-to-end" solution would be nice.  What I mean by this is that
> right now the index generation is a separate step, and it involves
> running GDB, so for daily development it is basically not worth doing.
> It is only worthwhile in the RPM case.  If instead the compiler emitting
> indices that were then somehow more usable (e.g., linker makes the hash
> table), it would be better.  AFAIK nobody is working on this.
>
> We've also discussed proposing this as a DWARF standard.  However, DWARF
> is hard to work with, and writing this up as a standard would be a pain,
> mostly due to having to explain the details of name canonicalization.
> I suppose we could revisit this.

The linker is IMO the right place.

What this means it is far too early to add any output routines anywhere.
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