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Re: [PATCH] Clean-up backend ASM_FINAL_SPEC usage
Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
> Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
>> mips-tfile is used only for ECOFF alpha and mips, and only when GAS is
>> not used. One obvious tactic would be to require GAS for such
>> targets, thus eliminating the need for mips-tfile entirely. I'm not
>> sure what the situation is on alpha, but Richard Sandiford believes
>
> gas is not available for Alpha/Tru64 UNIX, so one needs mips-tfile to get
> any debugging information on that platform.
I didn't know that. How do the native compilers for that platform
generate debug information?
zw