From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Zack Weinberg" To: Daniel Berlin Cc: Mark Mitchell , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Jim Wilson Subject: Re: killing ASM_IDENTIFY_GCC [branch] Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:45:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010411004540.C221@stanford.edu> References: <20010410222316.A221@stanford.edu> <20010410231659H.mitchell@codesourcery.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00596.html On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:34:47AM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote: > Mark Mitchell writes: > > > I'm not qualified to review this patch since there are too many funky > > targets I don't know about. > > This patch will break STABS in gdb. Can you expand a bit more? I remember you saying that it didn't use gcc2_compiled. at all. ... > There is a lot of annoying stuff in processing STABS in gdb. I > could work around most of it by saying "if we aren't on a sun, and > we have STABS debug info, we are processing gcc compiled stuff" > (since it's sun's dbx stuff that all these problems/workarounds are > implemented for). However, I can't do this unless the sun ones are > moved to DWARF2 as the default with this change as well (so that > stabs no longer occurs, and stabs that does occur will have the > symbol, or be sun compiled stuff). Unless Sun's compiler also > outputs gcc2_compiled these days, i don't know. Also I'm failing to see why it matters which compiler generated the STABS information. I thought that GCC tried to match what the native compiler generated. zw