Re: RFA: document binutils support for separate debug info

Andrew Cagney
2003-06-27T12:28:42Z

> Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> writes:
>
>
>> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> > > From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
>> > > Date: 25 Jun 2003 12:35:00 -0500
>> > >
>> > > 2003-06-25 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
>> > >
>> > > * gdb.texinfo (Separate Debug Files): Update documentation to
>> > > describe GNU Binutils' support for separate debug info files.
>> >
>> > Approved. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Wait a second. I am fixing gdb bugs ATM with that code.
>> I think let's hold the doco until it works completely.
>
>
> Yes, Nick just told me that things are in flux, too. I tried things
> out and what I tried worked (I didn't fake the example!) but I'm happy
> to wait and see how things settle out.
>
> Do you have the Dejagnu magic to run the entire test suite with
> separate debug info? I keep wanting to integrate it into
> testsuite/lib/gdb.exp so one can get it just by adding magic to one's
> target_list, but I don't get around to it.

There really needs to be a unit test for this feature. That way people
will know it works, even when their system isn't set up to use it.

Andrew