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Re: Request for Obsoletion: DWARF
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 23:01:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: Request for Obsoletion: DWARF
- References: <17930000.1025896220@gandalf.codesourcery.com>
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> The *only* point in having DWARF support is for compatibility with vendor
> tools; GDB works find with DWARF2 or DBX. But what vendor tools are out
> there that really want DWARF anymore?
I think there are still a number of compilers and debuggers in the embedded
space that use DWARF 1.1 with some C++ extensions that we haven't bothered
to implement. I think the extensions originated at Metaware, but I don't
remember for sure. We still periodically get people asking for DWARF 1
support. We tell them no, but they do ask...:)
I would not object to re-disabling DWARF 1 for C++.
Jason