Re: [rfc/NEWS] GDB works with GCC -feliminate-dwarf2-dups.

Eli Zaretskii
2004-10-17T19:45:53Z

> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:31:44 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>
> 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?

I liked Michael's original version better: it is more user-oriented.

If it is important to mention technicalities like DW_FORM_ref_addr,
then I think they should come _after_ Michael's user-oriented
description.