From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28556 invoked by alias); 14 Jan 2013 22:18:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 28510 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jan 2013 22:18:13 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (HELO mail-out.m-online.net) (212.18.0.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:18:03 +0000 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3YlTZx2xTnz4KK3w; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:18:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3YlTZx1yYXzbbfY; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:18:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id slki8AiIbX2c; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:17:47 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: 75F9S4vkUs4d1Zo5gH4nNZPK3lyGmCXAhDMwqTL2CmU= Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-111-218.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.111.218]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:18:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 030C811200A; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:17:59 +0100 (CET) From: Andreas Schwab To: David Taylor Cc: Doug Evans , nick clifton , binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb Subject: Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb References: <12972.1357230104@usendtaylorx2l> <50E5B73C.8090009@redhat.com> <13440.1357915978@usendtaylorx2l> <13032.1358189769@usendtaylorx2l> X-Yow: Vote for ME -- I'm well-tapered, half-cocked, ill-conceived and TAX-DEFERRED! Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:18:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <13032.1358189769@usendtaylorx2l> (David Taylor's message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:56:09 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.92 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2013-01/txt/msg00057.txt.bz2 David Taylor writes: > Optimized, -O2. 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. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."