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commit67dbde0d7197b2fe6c9e08bda9fa4656c1f75ce4[log] [tgz]
authorMatthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>Thu Feb 25 14:58:03 2016 -0800
committerMatthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>Fri Feb 26 20:26:17 2016 +0000
tree07e33a02292b680640eddc7c936d85215c8e6c3b
parent5c613e9162aad2ea171d401754d97ea2be1442ce [diff]
cmd: stop looking for __.(GO)?SYMDEF entries in archives

The Go toolchain stopped creating them before Go 1.3, so no point in
worrying about them today.

History:

- Git commit 250a091 added cmd/ar, which wrote Plan 9 __.SYMDEF
entries into archive files.

- golang.org/cl/6500117 renamed __.SYMDEF to __.GOSYMDEF.  (Notably,
the commit message suggests users need to use Go nm to read symbols,
but even back then the toolchain did nothing with __.(GO)?SYMDEF files
except skip over them.)

- golang.org/cl/42880043 added the -pack flag to cmd/gc to directly
produce archives by the Go compiler, and did not write __.GOSYMDEF
entries.

- golang.org/cl/52310044 rewrote cmd/pack in Go, and removed support
for producing __.GOSYMDEF entries.

Change-Id: I255edf40d0d3690e3447e488039fcdef73c6d6b1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/19924
Run-TryBot: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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