From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: stabs and macro information
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030416172704.GB16947@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304161558.h3GFwJV09359@mailhub.lss.emc.com>
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:58:19AM -0400, David Taylor wrote:
> Currently, when invoked with -gdwarf-2 -g3, gcc will record macro
> information in a .debug_macinfo elf section. And when presented with
> an executable containing macro information in a .debug_macinfo
> section, gdb will make use of it.
>
> Many companies, including EMC, still use stabs. So... it would be
> nice if the same was true of stabs.
A more interesting question, to me, is why EMC still needs to use
stabs. They are an inferior debug format, extremely hard to parse or
extend. GCC's and GDB's current implementations of DWARF-2 (and 3) are
somewhat lacking, but it's all fixable.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-16 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-16 15:58 David Taylor
2003-04-16 16:47 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-04-16 17:16 ` David Taylor
2003-04-16 17:25 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-04-16 17:38 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-04-16 17:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-04-16 17:59 ` David Taylor
2003-04-16 20:29 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-04-17 16:39 ` David Taylor
2003-04-17 16:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-04-24 3:20 ` Jim Blandy
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