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Re: GCC, stabs, mangled names
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- To: carlton at math dot stanford dot edu, drow at mvista dot com
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:07:08 -0600
- Subject: Re: GCC, stabs, mangled names
Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
drow> FYI, my position on stabs has crystalized over time: I don't care, use
drow> DWARF-2. Even on Solaris if you use the GNU tools I believe DWARF-2 is
drow> available as an option.
I just built gcc 3.2.2 on sparc-sun-solaris2.7 and stabs+ is the default
and dwarf-2 is available as an option.
The last time I checked (December 2002 with gcc 3.2.1), I found that
Cygwin has stabs+ but not dwarf-2.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-12/msg00128.html
My opinion: gdb's goal should be that we have no regressions in stabs+
support, so that everything that worked in 5.3 continues to work in
5.4/6.0. It's important that *almost every* user of gdb 5.3 has a good
experience if they upgrade, so that we don't get users that are stuck
on old versions of gdb. After that, though, fixing existing stabs+
bugs is low priority to me.
Michael C