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Re: [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix)
On 05/23/2011 06:29 PM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with AIX 7, the xcoff binary file format now supports dwarf2. This is a
> huge step forward as the previous debugging format was a varation of stabs.
>
> But (and there is always a but) this is not fully standard dwarf2 as the
> section names differ. The first two patches deal with that in the most
> elegant way I could figure.
>
> The last two patches simply add the dwarf2 support for xcoff.
>
> Manually tested on AIX.
Is there any reason that prevent you running testsuite on AIX? If
dwarf2 has been supported on AIX, we may have to add corresponding
target triplet into proc dwarf2_support in testsuite/lib/dwarf.exp.
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Yao (éå)