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Diffstat (limited to 'src/cmd/link/internal/sym/compilation_unit.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/cmd/link/internal/sym/compilation_unit.go | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/sym/compilation_unit.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/sym/compilation_unit.go index d9bfc84936..dc37a36cba 100644 --- a/src/cmd/link/internal/sym/compilation_unit.go +++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/sym/compilation_unit.go @@ -10,12 +10,19 @@ import "cmd/internal/dwarf" // type from the sym package since loader imports sym. type LoaderSym int -// CompilationUnit is an abstraction used by DWARF to represent a chunk of -// debug-related data. We create a CompilationUnit per Object file in a -// library (so, one for all the Go code, one for each assembly file, etc.). +// A CompilationUnit represents a set of source files that are compiled +// together. Since all Go sources in a Go package are compiled together, +// there's one CompilationUnit per package that represents all Go sources in +// that package, plus one for each assembly file. +// +// Equivalently, there's one CompilationUnit per object file in each Library +// loaded by the linker. +// +// These are used for both DWARF and pclntab generation. type CompilationUnit struct { Pkg string // The package name, eg ("fmt", or "runtime") Lib *Library // Our library + PclnIndex int // Index of this CU in pclntab PCs []dwarf.Range // PC ranges, relative to Textp[0] DWInfo *dwarf.DWDie // CU root DIE DWARFFileTable []string // The file table used to generate the .debug_lines |