[PATCH] Temporarily revert Steven's PCH changes for 4.8 (PR pch/54117)

Jeff Law law@redhat.com
Thu Feb 14 12:24:00 GMT 2013


On 02/13/13 16:17, John David Anglin wrote:
> On 2013-02-13 3:33 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
>> Perhaps Dave can explain what would have to be done to move this
>>> platform to DWARF2...?
>>>
> I had looked at this a bit in the past.  I don't think it's that
> difficult to add DWARF2 support to GCC on hppa.  Although we don't
> support named sections, we can create named subspaces for the dwarf
> info.  More of an issue in my mind is the changes needed to gdb to
> recognize this support.
Given that we can create a subspace for the dwarf bits just like we've 
got subspaces for stabs bits, it ought to be trivial.

The GDB side shouldn't be hard either, just a matter of telling it what 
subspaces to look for.

jeff



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