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Re: PATCH for Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html - linux/x86debug formats?
- From: Loren James Rittle <rittle at latour dot rsch dot comm dot mot dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:22:39 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: PATCH for Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html - linux/x86debug formats?
- Organization: Networks and Infrastructure Lab (IL02/2240), Motorola Labs
- References: <20020425011200.D2022@redhat.com>
In article <Pine.BSF.4.44.0204261745021.71509-100000@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
you write:
>Is the following patch okay then? (If not, what should I change?)
>Index: changes.html
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-3.1/changes.html,v
>retrieving revision 1.20
>diff -u -3 -p -r1.20 changes.html
>--- changes.html 26 Apr 2002 13:12:28 -0000 1.20
>+++ changes.html 26 Apr 2002 15:45:01 -0000
>@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
> <li>The <code>-traditional</code> C compiler option has been
> deprecated and will be removed in GCC 3.2. (It remains possible to
> preprocess non-C code with the traditional preprocessor.)</li>
>+
>+ <li>The default debugging format for GNU/Linux platforms has changed
>+ from stabs to DWARF2. This requires GDB 5.1.1 or later.</li>
> </ul>
Are you willing to generalize the statement? In particular, I know it
is true about FreeBSD. Based upon study of elfos.h (and the similar
yet different alpha/elf.h) as will ship with gcc 3.1, I believe this
is true about all ELF platforms.
Regards,
Loren
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Loren J. Rittle
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Object Technology Lab
Networks and Infrastructure Research Lab (IL02/2240), Motorola Labs
rittle@rsch.comm.mot.com, KeyID: 2048/ADCE34A5, FDC0292446937F2A240BC07D42763672