PATCH: Fix mips debug (Re: MIPS_STABS_ELF is now broken)

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:04:02AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:49:11AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am having the second thought. The gas change is too big for me. May
> > > I propose to do these:
> > > 
> > > 1. Modify the mips gas to take either
> > > 
> > > 	.file "foo.c"
> > > or
> > > 
> > > 	.file 1 "foo.c"
> > > 
> > > as the first line for stabs, dwarf and mdebug.
> > > 
> > > 2. Modify gcc 3 to emit
> > > 
> > > 	.file "foo.c"
> > > 
> > > as the first line for stabs, dwarf and mdebug.
> > > 
> > > In this way, the new gas will still work with the existing compiler
> > > and the dwarf/stabs output will be very similar to x86. That means you
> > > have to use the new gas for gcc 3. I will post my gas/gcc changes
> > > shortly.
> > 
> > What advantage do you claim this has over the patches I posted (which
> 
> My gas change will be very small and the dwarf/stabs asm output will be
> very similar to x86, which is well tested.
> 
> > have already gone in on the GCC side, and which do not make GCC3
> > require a new binutils version for stabs output)?
> 
> What is wrong to require a new binutils for a new gcc? Also if you do
> 
> # .../configure
> # make bootstrap
> 
> you will need a new binutils for mips anyway.
> 
> > 
> > Also, your patch will be incompatible with traditional MIPS assemblers
> > and their use of .file.  All the world is not GNU as!
> > 
> 
> You haven't seen my gcc patch. How do you know it isn't compatible
> with non gas?

Here are 2 patches for mips debug, one for gas and the other for gcc.


H.J.

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