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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/minsyms.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/minsyms.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/minsyms.c b/gdb/minsyms.c index 3aeda7d0815..635d0cc4a17 100644 --- a/gdb/minsyms.c +++ b/gdb/minsyms.c @@ -145,7 +145,15 @@ add_minsym_to_demangled_hash_table (struct minimal_symbol *sym, Note: One instance where there may be duplicate minimal symbols with the same name is when the symbol tables for a shared library and the symbol tables for an executable contain global symbols with the same - names (the dynamic linker deals with the duplication). */ + names (the dynamic linker deals with the duplication). + + It's also possible to have minimal symbols with different mangled + names, but identical demangled names. For example, the GNU C++ v3 + ABI requires the generation of two (or perhaps three) copies of + constructor functions --- "in-charge", "not-in-charge", and + "allocate" copies; destructors may be duplicated as well. + Obviously, there must be distinct mangled names for each of these, + but the demangled names are all the same: S::S or S::~S. */ struct minimal_symbol * lookup_minimal_symbol (const char *name, const char *sfile, |