From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17540 invoked by alias); 23 May 2011 16:00:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 17530 invoked by uid 22791); 23 May 2011 15:59:59 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 May 2011 15:59:45 +0000 Received: (qmail 18515 invoked from network); 23 May 2011 15:59:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.102?) (yao@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 23 May 2011 15:59:44 -0000 Message-ID: <4DDA8467.7010305@codesourcery.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:00:00 -0000 From: Yao Qi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix) References: <1306146544-3925-1-git-send-email-gingold@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <1306146544-3925-1-git-send-email-gingold@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2011-05/txt/msg00536.txt.bz2 On 05/23/2011 06:29 PM, Tristan Gingold wrote: > Hi, > > with AIX 7, the xcoff binary file format now supports dwarf2. This is a > huge step forward as the previous debugging format was a varation of stabs. > > But (and there is always a but) this is not fully standard dwarf2 as the > section names differ. The first two patches deal with that in the most > elegant way I could figure. > > The last two patches simply add the dwarf2 support for xcoff. > > Manually tested on AIX. Is there any reason that prevent you running testsuite on AIX? If dwarf2 has been supported on AIX, we may have to add corresponding target triplet into proc dwarf2_support in testsuite/lib/dwarf.exp. -- Yao (齐尧)