From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24222 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2004 19:45:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24214 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2004 19:45:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO balder.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.15) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 Oct 2004 19:45:52 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.157.85]) by balder.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id DVC24852 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:45:46 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:45:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Daniel Jacobowitz Message-ID: <01c4b481$Blat.v2.2.2$7466ede0@zahav.net.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 CC: mec.gnu@mindspring.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20041017183143.GA22628@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:31:44 -0400) Subject: Re: [rfc/NEWS] GDB works with GCC -feliminate-dwarf2-dups. Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <4172B5F4.nailMEV1154GO@mindspring.com> <20041017183143.GA22628@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00305.txt.bz2 > Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:31:44 -0400 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com > > GDB now supports a more compact representation of DWARF-2 debug > information using DW_FORM_ref_addr references. These are produced by > some commercial compilers, and by GCC's -feliminate-dwarf2-dups > option. You must use GCC 3.3.4 or later to use this option. > > How's that? I liked Michael's original version better: it is more user-oriented. If it is important to mention technicalities like DW_FORM_ref_addr, then I think they should come _after_ Michael's user-oriented description.