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Re: commitment to DWARF2 debugging information
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, obrien at NUXI dot com
- Subject: Re: commitment to DWARF2 debugging information
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:55:31 -0700 (PDT)
> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:39:13 -0700
> From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
> At the urging of one of the GDB maintainers I am seriously
> considering switching from STABS to the DWARF2 debugging format for
> all its platforms. This includes i386, Alpha, Sparc64, PPC,
> StrongARM, and IA-64.
> My question is how committed is the GCC Project on maintaining
> DWARF2 and to continue its development where needed.
We have switched from stabs to dwarf 2 here at Wind River, across the
board. If it is any reassurance, you won't be alone. Though, dwarf
is still new fangled technology to me. :-)