Debug formats on Linux

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:

    Joseph> Nearly three years on, we still have the same confusing
    Joseph> situation that -g generates stabs and -ggdb generates

Yes. 

I suspect that every new GCC platform will use DWARF2.  (I think that
IA64-Linux uses it.)

Why we can't switch on IA32-Linux is still somewhat beyond me, and I
still find the documentation as I did years ago.

I have largely given up fighting this fight, though.

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