--disable-new-gxx-abi

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 24, 2001, Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 24 Jan 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>> On Jan 24, 2001, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> 
>> > While going through GNATS reports I realized that apparently some
>> > people still bootstrap with/use --disable-new-gxx-abi.
>> 
>> Maybe because GDB still doesn't support the v3 ABI, and people who're
>> building GCC like that are the kind of people who think debugging code
>> with a debugger is still the way to go? :-)
> Define support.
> We support the mangling.
> Basically everything but virtual functions will work, and
> virtual functions might work with dwarf2.

Well, some of the GDB folks at Red Hat have been discussing how much
the new ABI has hosed the GDB testsuite.  Maybe I misunderstood and
it's just some cosmetic issues in the demangler?

> As the C++ support maintainer for GDB, i'm catching up as fast as I can.

I didn't mean to be pushy.  On the contrary :-)

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