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Re: patch to improve i386 epilogue (version 4)
- To: John Wehle <john at feith dot com>
- Subject: Re: patch to improve i386 epilogue (version 4)
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 18:27:16 -0600
- cc: mark at markmitchell dot com, egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199810092057.QAA16985@jwlab.FEITH.COM>you write:
> > Now, I'd like to suggest it again. We could make DWARF2 the default
> > format on systems that ship with GDB. If that allows us to free up a
> > register, so much the better; as we all know the x86 can use as many
> > registers as it can get. If there are problems with DWARF2 support,
> > this will help to shake them out.
>
> Seems reasonable to me, however I'm not up to speed on what all this
> impacts. Is DWARF2 the most versatile debugging format? Is there any
> issue with the OS supplied gdb not being up to date?
dwarf2 is the most versatile of the existing formats gcc & gdb support. There
may be other formats that aren't supported by our tools that may be better.
jeff