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Issue 323163004: [NaCl SDK] docs: Introduce .bc vs .pexe naming convention before using that in doc. (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src
Patch Set: Created 6 years, 6 months ago
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diff --git a/native_client_sdk/src/doc/devguide/devcycle/debugging.rst b/native_client_sdk/src/doc/devguide/devcycle/debugging.rst
index cd8d8b82c4c2e1b5e05ba52b7023b6720a58d1f1..6a28ddb48c3514a58121c4cb262087d0aa06cd44 100644
--- a/native_client_sdk/src/doc/devguide/devcycle/debugging.rst
+++ b/native_client_sdk/src/doc/devguide/devcycle/debugging.rst
@@ -222,7 +222,10 @@ If you want to use GDB to debug a program that is compiled with the PNaCl
toolchain, you must have a copy of the pexe from **before** running
``pnacl-finalize``. The ``pnacl-finalize`` tool converts LLVM bitcode
to the stable PNaCl bitcode format, but it also strips out debug
-metadata, which we need for debugging.
+metadata, which we need for debugging. In this section we'll give the
+LLVM bitcode file a ``.bc`` file extension, and the PNaCl bitcode file
+a ``.pexe`` file extension. The actual extension should not matter, but
+it helps distinguish between the two types of files.
**Note** unlike the finalized copy of the pexe, the non-finalized debug copy
is not considered stable. This means that a debug copy of the PNaCl
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