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Re: Debug formats on Linux
- To: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Subject: Re: Debug formats on Linux
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at redhat dot com>
- Date: 28 Oct 2000 13:09:16 -0400
- Cc: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20001028111319.6209534D81@nile.gnat.com>
dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> <<> I suspect that every new GCC platform will use DWARF2. (I think that
> > IA64-Linux uses it.)
> >>
>
> One would hope that Stabs will still be usable on most platforms, since
> this representation is so much more space efficient than DWARF2.
Actually, this isn't true at all.
Proper DWARF2 is much smaller than stabs.
--Dan