Re: [Clibinutils-devel] Support for MDB debug info to ld

[Andrea C. O. <and...@gm...>]

I am not in the office at the moment, I need a couple of days to see
what I have.
Perhaps it's already done :)
I just do not remember.

I worked on it more than a year ago when I was writing the binutils.

Andrea

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Thierry Lafage <thi...@in...> wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> I think that 2 more checkout points is not a problem provided that it is
> correctly documented and because there is already the dependency wrt. Cecil.
> The real problem is, I guess, how much work would it be to add this support
> and what has to be done.
> Then, given that it is not our top priority either, who should (or would be
> willing to) do the work?
>
> Regards,
>
> Thierry Lafage.
>
>
>
> Andrea Carlo Ornstein a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I actually tried to solve the problem a while ago,
>> after a while I give up. :)
>> It was not a priority at the time, we just would have two extra checkout
>> points.
>>
>> The right solution would be to use the libraries installed in the
>> machine you are building on (the same apply to Mono.Cecil).
>>
>> For Cecil this was always a problem, on my machine, a Debian (but also
>> on ubuntu) the library they ship is too old.
>> That is the reason we check out it from Mono repository and build it
>> from scratch.
>>
>> We can use the one installed in the machine if they are up to date
>> (small change in the e configure.ac)I can provide a patch for it.
>> OR
>> add two new checkout points and change the Makefile as I did for Cecil
>> (Imay still have may changes somewhere in my machine at the office.
>>
>> Andrea
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Thierry Lafage <thi...@in...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Some time ago, I added .line information generation in gcc4cli so as to
>>> relate cli code to C source code. I'm preparing an ilasm patch to take
>>> these .line statements into account and write source information in the
>>> corresponding .mdb file.
>>> Now, the last stage would be to make ld gather all .mdb files together
>>> (with adequate relocation info) to build the a.out.mdb (or .dll.mdb, or
>>> ...).
>>> I've began to look at Cecil code, and I've found that there is support
>>> for mdb files in Mono.Cecil.Mdb (which have to be separately check-outed
>>> and have to include Mono.CompilerServices.SymbolWriter, also separately
>>> check-outed). But, I really don't know how to do that and whether it
>>> would be a lot of work (it seems so to me).
>>>
>>> People in this list surely have already though of this matter: what is
>>> your opinion? Would there be someone willing to develop it (maybe I
>>> would if it's not a lot of work)?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Thierry Lafage.
>>>
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