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Re: GCC 4.5 Status Report (2009-09-19)
> extensibility, this isn't a problem for these extensions, as older
> DWARF readers will simply ignore the location expressions that use the
> extensions -- which produces the same behavior as DWARF-2 without
> those extensions.
I said "will simply ignore" when I guess I should have said "should
simply ignore". Obviously, the whole point of the -gstrict-dwarf
option is to deal with certain tools that don't simply ignore the
extensions.
-cary