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Re: [RFC] GDB's mdebug support vs. GCC 3.0
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:09:12PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:39:44PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > The stabs support for mips-linux is now much more complete than it was; from
> > what I can see this is because we started using config/elfos.h in gcc. Two
> > of the gems we get from this are EINCL/BINCL stabs, which as far as I can
> > see we did not before, and a trailing SO at the end of a file.
> >
>
> Since you mentioned mdebug and mips-linux, I assume you are aware that
> Linux/MIPS no longer uses mdebug. I have changed it to MIPS_STABS_ELF.
I'm aware of that, yes. GCC 3.0 emits mdebug, however. With 3.0.1
hopefully we can stop using the mdebug code. Or simply switch to
DWARF2; I'm still not clear on why we haven't done that already.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer