Debug formats on Linux

Daniel Berlin dberlin@redhat.com
Sat Oct 28 10:09:00 GMT 2000


dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

> <<> I suspect that every new GCC platform will use DWARF2.  (I think that
> > IA64-Linux uses it.)
> >>
> 
> One would hope that Stabs will still be usable on most platforms, since
> this representation is so much more space efficient than DWARF2. 

Actually, this isn't true at all.
Proper DWARF2 is much smaller than stabs.
--Dan



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