From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12450 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2004 18:31:48 -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 12436 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2004 18:31:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 Oct 2004 18:31:45 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1CJFom-0005tx-3g; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:31:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:31:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Michael Chastain Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfc/NEWS] GDB works with GCC -feliminate-dwarf2-dups. Message-ID: <20041017183143.GA22628@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Chastain , eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <4172B5F4.nailMEV1154GO@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4172B5F4.nailMEV1154GO@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00300.txt.bz2 On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 02:12:04PM -0400, Michael Chastain wrote: > This looks like NEWS to me. > > Daniel, did I get the details right? Sort of... I'd say: 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? > > Eli, is this okay? > > === > > 2004-10-17 Michael Chastain > > * NEWS: GDB works with GCC -feliminate-dwarf2-dups. > > Index: NEWS > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v > retrieving revision 1.161 > diff -c -3 -p -r1.161 NEWS > *** NEWS 12 Aug 2004 21:44:19 -0000 1.161 > --- NEWS 17 Oct 2004 18:07:34 -0000 > *************** > *** 1,7 **** > What has changed in GDB? > (Organized release by release) > > ! *** Changes since GDB 6.2: > > *** Changes in GDB 6.2.1: > > --- 1,12 ---- > What has changed in GDB? > (Organized release by release) > > ! *** Changes since GDB 6.2.1: > ! > ! * GDB works with GCC -feliminate-dwarf2-dups > ! > ! GDB now works with programs compiled with -feliminate-dwarf2-dups. > ! You must use GCC 3.3.4 or later to use this option. > > *** Changes in GDB 6.2.1: > > -- Daniel Jacobowitz