From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H . J . Lu" To: Andrew Cagney Cc: GDB , binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: stabs or ecoff for Linux/mips Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 11:13:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010607111324.C15440@lucon.org> References: <20010607093332.C13198@lucon.org> <3B1FC23D.3020900@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00141.html On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:04:45PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > dwarf2 > stabs > not ecoff (er, isn't ecoff an object format like coff? I guess you mean > something like Dwarf1) Ok. I meant stabs in ecoff vs. stabs in elf. > > As Dan will probably be quick to point out, you'll get better C++ > support with dwarf2. > > There is nothing unstable about dwarf2. GDB's support for it has been > around for yonks. It is more than just gdb. For a complete dwarf2 support, we need gcc and binutils. I don't think we are there yet, at least not with stable release. H.J.