[PATCH] make DWARF2_DEBUG the default for ELF platforms.

David O'Brien obrien@FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 6 09:13:00 GMT 2001


On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:53:56AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> GDB 5.1 was released about a week ago, by the way.

Opps!  Thanks for the info.
 

> Well, I believe that switching to DWARF2 as default is not a "major
> change" for GCC.  As such, what's the deadline on it?

Making a change in 3.1.x. after 3.1.0 is released is extremely hard, and
so cruft in the configurations files will be lived with for quite a
while.  Thus my desire to either remove PREFERRED_DEBUGGING_TYPE from
elfos.h, or set it to what seems to be the more popular setting of
DWARF2_DEBUG before 3.1.0 is released.

> I'd like to hold off on this for a little while, and revisit it in
> (say) a month.

I won't be able to spend time it then, thus why I was asking if you would
promise to see this thru.
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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