ggdb debugging on i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> Robert Lipe <robertl@dgii.com> writes:

> So this generation of releases of EGCS/GCC/GDB will render untrue
> the traditional GCC axiom that you really really want to configure
> --with-stabs if you want functional C++ debugging, with GDB, right?

Not quite.  DWARF 1 is still inadequate for debugging C++, though the gcc
implementation is now functional within its limitations.  DWARF 2 is now
the preferred format, but only works on ELF targets.

> Does this suggest that changes to README.DWARF might be appropriate?

>      DWARF generation for the GNU g++ compiler is still not operable...

Yes.  That file is pretty old.

Jason