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Re: Function pointer stab information - where are the argument types?
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 03:29:26AM -0000, Dave Hooper wrote:
> > > Thanks in advance if anyone knows an easier way to achieve what I need
> >
> > Sure, there's a much easier way: use DWARF-2. I believe this works on
> > Cygwin now. It's structured, and much more precise than the stabs;
> > tremendously easier to parse, too.
>
> Not according to
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-10/msg00441.html
> And the cvs dump I got (which claims to be 3.4 20030103 according to
> version.c) backs this up as DWARF2_DEBUGGING_INFO is undefined, and
> PREFERRED_DEBUGGING_TYPE is still DBX_DEBUG not DWARF2_DEBUG
>
> Any ideas? Following the above post can you forsee anything wrong with
> #defining DWARF2_DEBUGGING_INFO in cygwin.h and rebuilding the tools? Or
> would I be better off taking this to a cygwin mailing list?
I've no idea if it will work or not; I recommend trying it :) DWARF-2
is enabled for DJGPP; although that's not a clear indicator it suggests
to me that you've got a chance.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer