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Re: ggdb debugging on i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1
- To: law at cygnus dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: ggdb debugging on i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 27 Jan 1998 09:57:48 -0800
- References: <199801271352.OAA17371@emskopp.a.shuttle.de><5662.885917939.cygnus.egcs@hurl.cygnus.com>
>>>>> Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
> In message <199801271352.OAA17371@emskopp.a.shuttle.de>you write:
>> I was just wondering about the current status for ggdb
>> debugging on i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1.
>> Using an egcs compiled gdb-4.16 I was not able to debug a -ggdb compiled
>> program. The -g compiled worked on the other hand.
>> I thought that DWARF2 is suppoted on Linux, so ggdb should be
>> usable.
> gdb-4.16 doesn't understand dwarf2 as well as it could.
Read "at all". 4.16 was released on April 22, 1996. DWARF 2 support was
added three months later, and made actually usable in December 1996.
Jason