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Re: [PATCH] make DWARF2_DEBUG the default for ELF platforms.

From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:49:22 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make DWARF2_DEBUG the default for ELF platforms.
Organization: The NUXI BSD group
References: <20011205145526.A7125@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011205180536.A26255@nevyn.them.org>
Reply-to: obrien at FreeBSD dot org

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:05:36PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:55:26PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > 2001-12-05  David O'Brien  <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
> > 
> > 	* elfos.h (PREFERRED_DEBUGGING_TYPE): Change to DWARF2_DEBUG.
...

> Have you actually verified this comment?

In general it is true.  Unless I totally misunderstood some previous
conversations I've been in, GDB is moving to making dwarf2 the preferred
format.

> For instance, I am fairly certain that MIPS dwarf2 is completely
> broken right now.

This is good to know, and thus one of config/mips/*.h can override
elfos.h's PREFERRED_DEBUGGING_TYPE and set it to something else.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PATCH] make DWARF2_DEBUG the default for ELF platforms.
  - From: Eric Christopher

References:
- [PATCH] make DWARF2_DEBUG the default for ELF platforms.
  - From: David O'Brien
- Re: [PATCH] make DWARF2_DEBUG the default for ELF platforms.
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz

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