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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 4932e49..db1a82e 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -49663,13 +49663,14 @@ unless otherwise noted: @enumerate @item -The version number, currently 8. Versions 1, 2 and 3 are obsolete. +The version number, currently 9. Versions 1, 2 and 3 are obsolete. Version 4 uses a different hashing function from versions 5 and 6. Version 6 includes symbols for inlined functions, whereas versions 4 and 5 do not. Version 7 adds attributes to the CU indices in the symbol table. Version 8 specifies that symbols from DWARF type units (@samp{DW_TAG_type_unit}) refer to the type unit's symbol table and not the -compilation unit (@samp{DW_TAG_comp_unit}) using the type. +compilation unit (@samp{DW_TAG_comp_unit}) using the type. Version 9 adds +the name and the language of the main function to the index. @value{GDBN} will only read version 4, 5, or 6 indices by specifying @code{set use-deprecated-index-sections on}. @@ -49691,6 +49692,9 @@ The offset, from the start of the file, of the address area. The offset, from the start of the file, of the symbol table. @item +The offset, from the start of the file, of the shortcut table. + +@item The offset, from the start of the file, of the constant pool. @end enumerate @@ -49766,6 +49770,21 @@ don't currently have a simple description of the canonicalization algorithm; if you intend to create new index sections, you must read the code. +@item The shortcut table +This is a data structure with the following fields: + +@table @asis +@item Language of main +An @code{offset_type} value indicating the language of the main function as a +@code{DW_LANG_} constant. This value will be zero if main function information +is not present. + +@item Name of main +An @code{offset_type} value indicating the offset of the main function's name +in the constant pool. This value must be ignored if the value for the language +of main is zero. +@end table + @item The constant pool. This is simply a bunch of bytes. It is organized so that alignment is correct: CU vectors are stored first, followed by |