From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8957 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2009 03:45:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 8948 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Jan 2009 03:45:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:45:45 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C3B2A95EB; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:45:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id CuMkOfKC+xuy; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:45:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94C12A95EA; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:45:40 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EFCFBE7ACD; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:45:33 +0400 (RET) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:45:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Tom Tromey Cc: Sean D'Epagnier , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] add support for debugging fixed-point numbers Message-ID: <20090120034533.GO24105@adacore.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00424.txt.bz2 > Sean> I'm not sure which is best, to try to add fixed-point support to stabs > Sean> format too, or to make gdb read the types from the dwarf format in > Sean> this case (or maybe both) > > I also have no idea about this :). I don't know anything about stabs, > I'm afraid. As far as I can tell, stabs does not provide support for fixed point types. But regardless of that, I wouldn't worry about stabs for new features, as the use of this debugging format is getting closer to zero. At AdaCore, we still use it because we support platforms such as AIX where moving to DWARF didn't work, so you will see occasional fixes from me, but that's as far as I will go with stabs. -- Joel