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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/objfiles.h | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 0d324a5..da1d636 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2019-08-05 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com> + + * objfiles.h (objfile): Add a comment describing partial symbols. + 2019-08-05 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> * compile/compile.c (_initialize_compile): Use _(), not N_(). diff --git a/gdb/objfiles.h b/gdb/objfiles.h index a0c106b..239aba2 100644 --- a/gdb/objfiles.h +++ b/gdb/objfiles.h @@ -382,7 +382,13 @@ private: 2. Additional symbol files added by the add-symbol-file command, 3. Shared library objfiles, added by ADD_SOLIB, 4. symbol files for modules that were loaded when GDB attached to a remote system - (see remote-vx.c). */ + (see remote-vx.c). + + GDB typically reads symbols twice -- first an initial scan which just + reads "partial symbols"; these are partial information for the + static/global symbols in a symbol file. When later looking up symbols, + objfile->sf->qf->lookup_symbol is used to check if we only have a partial + symbol and if so, read and expand the full compunit. */ struct objfile { |