[Dwarf-Discuss] How best to represent multiple programs in a single file...

[Michael Eager]

Relph, Richard wrote:
> Chris,
> 
>     Thanks for the reply. We have considered this approach, but it has 
> thus far been rejected for various reasons. Ultimately, what you suggest 
> ends up producing a separate ELF with DWARF for each kernel, which has 
> the obvious advantage of being easy to prove works. But OpenCL treats a 
> compilation of a set of kernels as a unit, so we?d have to design a 
> mechanism to put multiple ELFs in to a single bundle, which we?ve so far 
> been reluctant to do.

Perhaps treat each kernel as a separate loadable ELF segment,
each starting at address zero.

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