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Re: 3.3 PATCH: Handle mips gas 2.13 -mdebug switch

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
To: echristo at potter dot sfbay dot redhat dot com
Cc: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>,Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 22:55:48 -0400
Subject: Re: 3.3 PATCH: Handle mips gas 2.13 -mdebug switch
References: <20020719220256.GA31859@nevyn.them.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207201540410.8358-100000@potter.sfbay.redhat.com>

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 03:41:19PM -0700, echristo@potter.sfbay.redhat.com wrote:
> > Eh?  No!  I went to too much trouble getting MIPS/Linux moved away from
> > -mdebug.  And -no-mdebug doesn't mean terribly much if you aren't
> > generating stabs data, anyway.
> 
> OK. Barring linux.
> 
> The real question is if anyone sees a need for SDB debugging anymore...

I don't see why you should default any ELF target to -mdebug; I think
that only COFF targets and people with very particular needs should be
doing this.  This could depend on what SGI's debuggers like, I
suppose...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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