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Re: [patch] add support for debugging fixed-point numbers
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Sean D'Epagnier <geckosenator at gmail dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:45:33 +0400
- Subject: Re: [patch] add support for debugging fixed-point numbers
- References: <b9d4feda0812291740s62b913dbwee970d9c406d9d40@mail.gmail.com> <m3hc4lxwkj.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <b9d4feda0812311245m3e7143bnc8760b0b2b8dc97f@mail.gmail.com> <m3bpui51r6.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
> Sean> I'm not sure which is best, to try to add fixed-point support to stabs
> Sean> format too, or to make gdb read the types from the dwarf format in
> Sean> this case (or maybe both)
>
> I also have no idea about this :). I don't know anything about stabs,
> I'm afraid.
As far as I can tell, stabs does not provide support for fixed point
types. But regardless of that, I wouldn't worry about stabs for new
features, as the use of this debugging format is getting closer to
zero. At AdaCore, we still use it because we support platforms such
as AIX where moving to DWARF didn't work, so you will see occasional
fixes from me, but that's as far as I will go with stabs.
--
Joel