[PATCH] Update a stab string to reflect gcc3
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Fri Mar 15 18:16:00 GMT 2002
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:21:46PM -0800, Jim Ingham wrote:
> Oh, yeah, I forgot about this. Probably the best course is to emit both
> the "gcc2_compiled" and the "gcc3_compiled" stabs. As gdb is currently
> written, it will pick up the former, and totally ignore the latter. But
> then we can change it to read the latter as well, and do whatever we
> want with it.
Just curious - what did you want this knowledge for?
> On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 03:02 PM, Ira Ruben wrote:
>
> >At 5:21 PM -0300 3/15/02, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >
> >>AFAIK at least GDB used to rely on a symbol named explicitly
> >>`gcc2_compiled', not something that actually reflected the exact GCC
> >>major version number.
> >
> >At 5:15 PM -0500 3/15/02, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> >>It still does. It's not clear how many of the uses are still
> >>necessary, but the code is definitely still there.
> >
> >Well, it was one of the guys working on gdb here that asked for it to
> >be changed...until I told him about what you said :-) He went back to
> >verify it and you are correct. So if, when, and until he submits any
> >(accepted) gdb patches that want that string changed consider my patch
> >withdrawn.
> >
> >Sorry for the "noise" and thanks for pointing this out.
> >
> >Ira
> >
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> Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com
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>
>
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