Re: [RFC] Special casing dtors?

Mark Kettenis
2009-04-02T08:27:20Z

> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:46:17 -0700
> From: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
>
> I have run with gcc 4.2.0, 4.2.4, and gcc 4.3.2 releases (well, F10
> w/4.3.2), and I was finally able to reproduce the failures you mention
> with -gstabs+ (on the 4.2.x compilers). After digging into this for
> quite some time, I am convinced this happens not because of my patch,
> but because stabs is just really broken in gdb.

Well, stabs seems to work reasonable well for plain C on 32-bit
platforms. But I think we basically gave up on stabs for C++ many
years ago already. That's one of the reasons why basically all Open
Source Unix-like OSes switched to DWARF.