ggdb debugging on i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:

>   In message < 199801271352.OAA17371@emskopp.a.shuttle.de >you write:
>> I was just wondering about the current status for ggdb 
>> debugging on i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1.
>> Using an egcs compiled gdb-4.16 I was not able to debug a -ggdb compiled
>> program. The -g compiled worked on the other hand.
>> I thought that DWARF2 is suppoted on Linux, so ggdb should be
>> usable.

> gdb-4.16 doesn't understand dwarf2 as well as it could.

Read "at all".  4.16 was released on April 22, 1996.  DWARF 2 support was
added three months later, and made actually usable in December 1996.

Jason