From: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 07:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D2BDA942-98C6-4815-BEB3-9187F0456EE5@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DDA8467.7010305@codesourcery.com>
On May 23, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Yao Qi wrote:
> 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?
Short answer: I was never able to have a reliable run: expect fails randomly.
> If
> dwarf2 has been supported on AIX, we may have to add corresponding
> target triplet into proc dwarf2_support in testsuite/lib/dwarf.exp.
Only if dwarf2 is enabled by default, which is not true in the official gcc.
Tristan.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-23 10:29 Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] bfd.c: hancle aixcoff in bfd_get_sign_extend_vma Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] Really make dwarf2_get_section_info public Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:15 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 12:41 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] dwarf2read.c: handle alternate dwarf2 debug sections name Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:22 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-23 15:32 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:40 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-26 7:48 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] aix: add support for dwarf2 Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:35 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-23 15:42 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-23 15:47 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:50 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 7:20 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-24 13:37 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 13:44 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-24 14:56 ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 15:11 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-06-01 15:37 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-06-02 19:11 ` Tom Tromey
2011-06-07 12:32 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 16:00 ` [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix) Yao Qi
2011-05-24 7:06 ` Tristan Gingold [this message]
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