ARM not using .file/.loc

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Thu Nov 21 15:11:00 GMT 2002


> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:35:27PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:21:17PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > > Any reason we shouldn't just add 'arm*-*-*' to the insn=nop case?
> > > 
> > > Not that I know of.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > r~
> > 
> > What precisely is this supposed to be for?
> 
> Sorry, could've been clearer: this is used to run certain tests on GAS
> (and LD?).  Among them are whether we can emit .file/.loc for DWARF-2
> instead of having to generate the .debug_line section ourselves in
> .byte directives.

OK.  Thanks.  Do you know which version of gas on ARM first supported this 
feature?  The configure.in notes seem to imply that it may vary from 
target to target.

R.



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