From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10769 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2004 20:11:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10762 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2004 20:11:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO barry.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.25) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 Oct 2004 20:11:43 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by barry.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1CJHNW-0001pn-00; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:11:42 -0400 Received: from mindspring.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AE6F4B102; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:11:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:11:00 -0000 From: Michael Chastain To: eliz@gnu.org, dan@debian.org Subject: Re: [rfc/NEWS] GDB works with GCC -feliminate-dwarf2-dups. Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <4172D1FF.nailMO5211TI7@mindspring.com> References: <4172B5F4.nailMEV1154GO@mindspring.com> <20041017183143.GA22628@nevyn.them.org> <4172BF74.nailMK41WRWF5@mindspring.com> <20041017191337.GA23601@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20041017191337.GA23601@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: nail 10.8 6/28/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00307.txt.bz2 Here's a version with the last "this option" replaced by "-feliminate-dwarf2-dups". I like it this way too. Eli, I like this better than my original wording because gdb does not actually support versions of gcc; gdb supports certain debug formats, which gcc also supports. So about this version? 2004-10-17 Michael Chastain * NEWS: GDB works with GCC -feliminate-dwarf2-dups. Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.161 diff -c -3 -p -r1.161 NEWS *** NEWS 12 Aug 2004 21:44:19 -0000 1.161 --- NEWS 17 Oct 2004 20:06:05 -0000 *************** *** 1,7 **** What has changed in GDB? (Organized release by release) ! *** Changes since GDB 6.2: *** Changes in GDB 6.2.1: --- 1,15 ---- What has changed in GDB? (Organized release by release) ! *** Changes since GDB 6.2.1: ! ! * GDB works with GCC -feliminate-dwarf2-dups ! ! GDB now supports a more compact representation of DWARF-2 debug ! information using DW_FORM_ref_addr references. These are produced ! by GCC with the option -feliminate-dwarf2-dups and also by some ! commercial compilers. With GCC, you must use GCC 3.3.4 or later ! to use -feliminate-dwarf2-dups. *** Changes in GDB 6.2.1: