llvm dev - Jan 2013 - [LLVMdev] Restoring "pubnames" section in DWARF

We have customers that rely on the symbol information from the 
"pubnames" section in the DWARF data.  Generation of this information 
was removed in this commit:

commit dfa30e1ab243990eda4732a6dffb91e965e7a755
Author: Eric Christopher <echristo at apple.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 9 05:24:07 2011 +0000

     Remove the pubnames section, no one consumes it.

     git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk at 144169 
91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8


I could submit a patch that brings it back (some tweaks were needed). 
Is this something you could consider?

-Krzysztof

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>We have customers that rely on the symbol information from the
>"pubnames" section in the DWARF data.  Generation of this
information
>was removed in this commit:
>
>commit dfa30e1ab243990eda4732a6dffb91e965e7a755
>Author: Eric Christopher <echristo at apple.com>
>Date:   Wed Nov 9 05:24:07 2011 +0000
>
>     Remove the pubnames section, no one consumes it.
>
>     git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk at 144169
>91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
>
>
>I could submit a patch that brings it back (some tweaks were needed).
>Is this something you could consider?
>
>-Krzysztof
I'd ask that it be made target-dependent, as I don't want it
(and apparently few do, which is why it was removed).
Thanks,
--paulr

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Robinson, Paul
<Paul.Robinson at am.sony.com>wrote:
> >We have customers that rely on the symbol information from the
> >"pubnames" section in the DWARF data.  Generation of this
information
> >was removed in this commit:
> >
> >commit dfa30e1ab243990eda4732a6dffb91e965e7a755
> >Author: Eric Christopher <echristo at apple.com>
> >Date:   Wed Nov 9 05:24:07 2011 +0000
> >
> >     Remove the pubnames section, no one consumes it.
> >
> >     git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk at 144169
> >91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
> >
> >
> >I could submit a patch that brings it back (some tweaks were needed).
> >Is this something you could consider?
> >
> >-Krzysztof
>
> I'd ask that it be made target-dependent, as I don't want it
> (and apparently few do, which is why it was removed).
>
No worries there, it can be put under a flag perhaps.

-eric
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