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Re: stabs or ecoff for Linux/mips
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: stabs or ecoff for Linux/mips
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:13:24 -0700
- Cc: GDB <gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com,linux-mips at oss dot sgi dot com
- References: <20010607093332.C13198@lucon.org> <3B1FC23D.3020900@cygnus.com>
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.