Re: [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix)

[Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>]

On May 23, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Yao Qi wrote:

> 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?

Short answer: I was never able to have a reliable run: expect fails randomly.

>  If
> dwarf2 has been supported on AIX, we may have to add corresponding
> target triplet into proc dwarf2_support in testsuite/lib/dwarf.exp.

Only if dwarf2 is enabled by default, which is not true in the official gcc.

Tristan.