From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11714 invoked by alias); 4 May 2002 00:33:12 -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 11706 invoked from network); 4 May 2002 00:33:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO duracef.shout.net) (204.253.184.12) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 May 2002 00:33:10 -0000 Received: (from mec@localhost) by duracef.shout.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g440X9Y25796; Fri, 3 May 2002 19:33:09 -0500 Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 17:33:00 -0000 From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Message-Id: <200205040033.g440X9Y25796@duracef.shout.net> To: drow@mvista.com, jimb@redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: Check for corruption of cv_type chain Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00091.txt.bz2 Jim Blandy writes: > It doesn't seem to the default pre-3.1. -gstabs is. (I think.) On native i686-pc-linux-gnu, with gcc 3.0.4 in a usual configuration, "gcc -g" emits stabs+ format, not stabs format. This is also true for gcc 2.95.3. I just checked this with some trial programs, plus I run the test suite every so often with a lot of different "-g" options, including -g, -gstabs, -gstabs+, -gdwarf, and -gdwarf-2. > Given that it's not the default, I guess I'm worried that this test > won't behave properly as a regression test, because people so rarely > run the test in that configuration. You don't have to worry about this, because "-g" maps to "-gstabs+" rather than "-gstabs". (Actually you and I probably still have a philosophical difference here. I would argue for keeping the test agnostic *even if* "-g" mapped to "-gstabs". But with the facts as they are, I think that difference between us can be moot.) Michael C