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Re: egcs 1.1.1 : debug mode support for SGI IRIX5.3
- To: Pasha Murat <murat at cdfsga dot fnal dot gov>
- Subject: Re: egcs 1.1.1 : debug mode support for SGI IRIX5.3
- From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>
- Date: 21 Dec 1998 16:35:35 -0200
- Cc: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
- References: <13950.33294.154008.581407@cdfsga.fnal.gov>
On Dec 21, 1998, Pasha Murat <murat@cdfsga.fnal.gov> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva writes:
>> On Dec 20, 1998, Pasha Murat <murat@cdfsga.fnal.gov> wrote:
>> > in EGCS 1.1.1 for SGI IRIX 5.3 . For some reason I'm failing to use gdb
>> > GNU assembler version 2.9.1 (mips-sgi-irix5.3), using BFD version 2.9.1
>>
>> > This GDB was configured as "mips-sgi-irix6.2"...
>> Maybe it's just because you're using GDB configured for another
>> release of IRIX. I'm not sure they're supposed to be compatible.
> for previous versions of egcs (gcc) to allow debugging on
> SGI/IRIX5.3 one had to configure gcc with --with-gnu-assembler (or
> --with-gas). This worked with EGCS 1.1b as well. So I was doing.
> I tried to build several EGCS snapshots released before EGCS 1.1.1
> but *after* 1.1b. For those snapshots GCC when invoked with `-g'
> complained that "debug option is not supported in this
> configuration". In 1.1.1 no such diagnostics is printed but my
> previous mail tells what is happening.
I see. The problem isn't related with the debugger; I was able to
reproduce the lack of debugging information on mips-sgi-irix5.2, even
though I was using a gdb built for that very platform, and gcc was
configured --with-gnu-as
Does anyone have any idea on how to re-enable IRIX5 debugging support?
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil