Re: debug flags (-feliminate-dwarf2-dups)

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at redhat dot com>]

Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:

> Again... Please either post a tarball of your sources, a binary, or 
> refrain from teasing us.
> Talking about doing all this stuff and then not 
> letting anybody use them or verify your work is, IMHO, quite lame.
Err, most of my patches are still in the gdb-patches archive, you
should be able to find them.
This particular one, is not.
It'll be at www.cgsoftware.com/~dan/dwarf2read.c in a few minutes.

> 
> -benjamin
> 
> > No, it's just that gdb can't debug things with -feliminate-dwarf2-dups
> > on yet.
> > I basically had to rewrite large portions of the dwarf2 reader because it makes
> > stupid assumptions (though i can't fault this, because it's based on
> > the dwarf1 reader, where these assumptions are valid), and I don't
> > want the hassle of trying to get the  patch approved, because it
> > basically, well, rewrites the dwarf2 reader, making it a pain in the
> > ass to get approved.
> > If someone else wants to herd it through the gdb patch approval
> > process, i'll happily send it along.

-- 
I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up.  I couldn't
find tractors small enough to fit it.