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Re: Debug formats on Linux
- To: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Subject: Re: Debug formats on Linux
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:34:38 -0600
- cc: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at redhat dot com
In message <20001028111319.6209534D81@nile.gnat.com>you write:
> <<> I suspect that every new GCC platform will use DWARF2. (I think that
> > IA64-Linux uses it.)
> >>
>
> One would hope that Stabs will still be usable on most platforms, since
> this representation is so much more space efficient than DWARF2.
That's not necessarily true.
For example on PA64 dwarf2 is more compact than stabs would be for
most applications. There are of course exceptions.
jeff