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Re: about how to add support to new c++ compiler in GDB

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Wu Zhou <woodzltc at cn dot ibm dot com>
Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:17:18 -0400
Subject: Re: about how to add support to new c++ compiler in GDB
References: <001f01c54a0b$146e8450$7286b509@ibmcsdl9m89c83> <20050426031822.GA4998@nevyn.them.org> <01cf01c54a45$899fb070$7286b509@ibmcsdl9m89c83>

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 05:51:34PM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote:
> I am not very sure. They(the developer of xlc) said that they also follow
> GNU V3 C++ ABI. But there are quite a few difference between the debuginfo
> generated by g++ and xlc++. An new file named xlc-abi.c is what I could
> thought of at this time. It could verify my idea, and at the same time not
> impact the debugging of g++ code. If the changes is not big, maybe we could
> integrate them back into gnu-v3-abi.c at last.

If the debugging information is different, you will need changes in the
dwarf2 reader.  However, you will probably not need a new ABI file; the
gnu-v3-abi code should suffice.

> My manager are arranging this for me. Do I need to assign any document
> myself? If yes, I am very glad to do so.

I don't know.  Let's see what happens.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

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