Re: RFA: MIPS/dwarf-2: gas patches

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 07:32:06PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > The net effect should be that the only way to get a .mdebug section
> > generated on MIPS is to ask for ECOFF assembler debugging.  I'm
> > currently talking to Eric about obsoleting all the MIPS ECOFF targets
> > anyway, since we haven't been able to roust up a single user lately.
> > I believe some *BSD people use it for a boot format, but they don't
> > compile directly to it.
> 
>  Well, due to bugs in binutils Linux uses elf2ecoff to make a COFF kernel
> executable.  Fixing the bugs is on my to-do list (not very high, though). 
> We can probably live without ECOFF debugging, OTOH.

You should be able to use the ELF image to debug, though - give the
debugger one and the boot firmware the other.  I'm pretty sure PowerPC
does something similar.

>  Then there is Ultrix as well.  I can't state how many people still use
> it, but chances are if tools work, nobody reports being a user. 

Hmm, Ultrix was obsoleted in GCC and no one complained.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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