[Bug target/41473] [4.5 Regression] dsymutil "Assertion failed ..."

[rguenther at suse dot de]

------- Comment #38 from rguenther at suse dot de  2009-11-23 15:28 -------
Subject: Re:  [4.5 Regression] dsymutil "Assertion failed
 ..."

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, howarth at nitro dot med dot uc dot edu wrote:

> ------- Comment #37 from howarth at nitro dot med dot uc dot edu  2009-11-23 15:26 -------
> (In reply to comment #36)
> > If it's valid dwarf then it is also dwarf-strict.  Please get apple
> > fix its tools and issue a maintainance update.  (I'm inclined to close
> > this bug as invalid)
> > 
> > Richard.
> > 
> 
> Apple will be fixing this for Xcode 3.2.x, but realistically it extremely
> unlikely
> that the fix will be backported to Xcode 3.1.x or early so you are basically
> cutting off all releases earlier than Snow Leopard from generating
> complete debug code in gcc trunk. Currently we can't generate dSYM's for...
> 
>  libgcj.dylib
>  libgcjgc.1.dylib
>  libgfortran.3.dylib
>  libgomp.1.dylib
>  libobjc-gnu.2.dylib
> libssp.0.dylib
>  libstdc++.6.dylib
> 
> because of this issue. Our only other choice left will be to carry around
> non-standard patches to avoid
> this problem in distributed FSF gcc binaries for darwin.

As this only affects GCC 4.5 it is not unreasonable to require
an up-to-date Xcode.

Richard.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41473