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Re: Java docs patch: Update libgcj system properties docuementation
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:22:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: Java docs patch: Update libgcj system properties docuementation
- References: <426FD9F6.60703@redhat.com> <d4pqgj$ir0$1@sea.gmane.org><17008.44707.485791.472033@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com>
* Andrew Haley:
> > I think it's high time we ditch addr2line and go
> > with something like Casey Marshall's DWARF-2 reader
>
> No argument there. The only thing that stands in the way of doing
> this is testing on a wide range of systems. This means 32-and 64-bit,
> big- and little- endian, and systems that use stabs by default.
It would be nice if you could make this sufficiently general so that
GNAT could use it for its exception backtraces, too.
(In theory, GNAT can use -laddr2line, but no one seems to have source
code for that library.)