Issue 080621.1: Sharing Abbreviations
Motivation:
At least one compiler vendor has emitted DWARF not
sharing abbreviations, leading to a large waste of space.
What follows is lightly adapted from Ron Brender's wording suggestion.
Suggested Change:
Add a (normative) sentence before the last sentence of 7.5:
"Multiple debugging information entries may share the same abbreviation
table entry." Break out the sharing sentences (there are now two of them
in this proposed text) into a separate paragraph.
The paragraph then ends (showing unchanged sentences
as well as the one new sentence):
"...Each debugging information entry begins with a code that represents
an entry in a separate abbreviations table. This code is followed directly
by a series of attribute values.
The appropriate entry in the abbreviations table guides the
interpretation of the information contained directly in the
.debug_info section.
"Multiple debugging information entries may share the same
abbreviation table entry. Each compilation unit is associated with
a particular abbreviation table, but multiple compilation units may
share the same table."
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Accepted.
