This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: --disable-new-gxx-abi
- To: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: --disable-new-gxx-abi
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 24 Jan 2001 16:40:20 -0200
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0101241308490.29210-100000@www.cgsoftware.com>
On Jan 24, 2001, Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 24 Jan 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 2001, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>
>> > While going through GNATS reports I realized that apparently some
>> > people still bootstrap with/use --disable-new-gxx-abi.
>>
>> Maybe because GDB still doesn't support the v3 ABI, and people who're
>> building GCC like that are the kind of people who think debugging code
>> with a debugger is still the way to go? :-)
> Define support.
> We support the mangling.
> Basically everything but virtual functions will work, and
> virtual functions might work with dwarf2.
Well, some of the GDB folks at Red Hat have been discussing how much
the new ABI has hosed the GDB testsuite. Maybe I misunderstood and
it's just some cosmetic issues in the demangler?
> As the C++ support maintainer for GDB, i'm catching up as fast as I can.
I didn't mean to be pushy. On the contrary :-)
--
Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com}
CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist *Please* write to mailing lists, not to me