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Re: Request for Obsoletion: DWARF



--On Friday, July 05, 2002 11:01:13 PM +0100 Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> wrote:


"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.



Why do we care?  (Not meaning to be flip; a serious question.)




I would not object to re-disabling DWARF 1 for C++.



That would be a partial improvement.  We'd still be stuck with the
code, but we'd at least not push its limits as much.

--
Mark Mitchell                   mark@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery, LLC               http://www.codesourcery.com


















  
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