Re: DWARF5 and .gdb_index/.debug_names

Pedro Alves <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 8/30/20 6:18 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> dwz does support .gdb_index rewriting, but doesn't know about
> .debug_names yet. So could we as a first step, when switching the
> DWARF5 keep using .gdb_index? At least till any issues with gdb
> .debug_names are resolved and dwz supports it?

I'm not aware of anything that would force use of DWARF5 to also
imply use of .debug_names, or that would prevent using .gdb_index.
AFAIK, we can treat them as orthogonal.  

Pedro Alves
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