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From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com>
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Subject: Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:41:00 -0000
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> Then it is expected that dwarf debug is much bigger than stabs debug,
> since the latter does not include any of the value tracking capabilities
> of dwarf.  Without that it is almost impossible for a debugger to
> display the true value of local variables.

Indeed.  And it would be interesting to have figures with
  (1) -fno-var-tracking-assignments
and
  (2) -fno-var-tracking
then.

-- 
Eric Botcazou