ggdb debugging on i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Tue Jan 27 11:53:00 GMT 1998


  In message < 19980127133017.15366@dgii.com >you write:
  > 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?
It certainly takes a giant leap in that direction.  stabs are probably
still used more than dwarf2 for our tools, and thus probably will still
work a little better, but the gap is closing.  I suspect dwarf2 capabilities
will fly beyond stabs in the not too distant future.

jeff



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