Re: DWARF debugging format implementation

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Sep 29, 2003, at 8:42 PM, Devang Patel wrote:

> I'd like to know the status of implementation of DWARF debugging
> format in FSF tool chain. What is the status of C++ namespace
> support and duplicate header removal? I see some code for these
> features in GCC, but I do not know whether
> 1) it is incomplete

I had patches to do namespace support, but it required moving some 
stuff like some c++ specific tree codes to the common codes.
It may be easier to do it cleaner now, it may not be.
David Carlton has probably newer veresions of my patches.

> 2) it is waiting for support from GDB and/or binutil

Yes to this for duplicate header removal.
DW_FORM_ref_addr support in particular.

This will require significant changes to the DWARF2 reader.

It should at least ignore DW_TAG_namespace properly now, so ...

> 3) 1) & 2)
> 4) something else
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Devang