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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: jimb@red-bean.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] Deal with -g1 generated DWARF2 debug info
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512042220.jB4MKbai015633@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0512041316w14c80cfdka34f84fcbd3c6cdb@mail.gmail.com> 	(message from Jim Blandy on Sun, 4 Dec 2005 13:16:44 -0800)

> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 13:16:44 -0800
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
> 
> So, you want to have GDB misinterpret unambiguous Dwarf debugging info
> so that you can use -g1?  This sounds like a good candidate for a
> BSD-specific patch, to me.

So people shouldn't try to compile glibc with -g1 on Linux or the
Hurd?  That'd result in a borked gdb as well.

You could argue that GCC is broken, but then given the constraints
laid out by the DWARF2 standard, what GCC does seems reasonable to me.

Mark


      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-04 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-04 22:05 Mark Kettenis
2005-12-04 22:31 ` Jim Blandy
2005-12-05  9:43   ` Mark Kettenis
2005-12-04 22:40 ` Jim Blandy
2005-12-04 23:06   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-04 23:07     ` Jim Blandy
2005-12-05 10:32       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-05 18:29         ` Mark Kettenis
2005-12-05 19:23           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-07 16:19             ` Mark Kettenis
2005-12-05 16:56       ` Mark Kettenis
2005-12-05 19:57         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-05 14:40   ` Mark Kettenis [this message]

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