Re: about how to add support to new c++ compiler in GDB

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-26T13:20:28Z

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 05:51:34PM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote:
> I am not very sure. They(the developer of xlc) said that they also follow
> GNU V3 C++ ABI. But there are quite a few difference between the debuginfo
> generated by g++ and xlc++. An new file named xlc-abi.c is what I could
> thought of at this time. It could verify my idea, and at the same time not
> impact the debugging of g++ code. If the changes is not big, maybe we could
> integrate them back into gnu-v3-abi.c at last.

If the debugging information is different, you will need changes in the
dwarf2 reader. However, you will probably not need a new ABI file; the
gnu-v3-abi code should suffice.

> My manager are arranging this for me. Do I need to assign any document
> myself? If yes, I am very glad to do so.

I don't know. Let's see what happens.

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