Re: PATCH: Fix ICE in dwarf2out.c

[Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>]

Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> writes:

> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>> -g1 is equivalent in GDB to the minimal symbols, which it can get
>> without any debug info enabled. 
>> Wait, that's not quite true. It's minimal symbols with line
>> numbers. That's all.
> 
> That's the rub.  As AG said, gcj uses line numbers for backtraces.  We
> could change the default to -g2, but then executables would be larger
> than necessary.
> 
> There are now three separate PR's for this.  I think it should be
> fixed for 3.0.1 because it is a regression from 2.95 and ought to be a
> low-risk patch.

Yeah, i agree, i was just pointing it out.
I should probably note that in the manual somewhere.

> 
> Jeff

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