From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Blandy To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: GCC stabs don't contain prototype info Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:19:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20011127034423.DF2B75E9D8@zwingli.cygnus.com> <20011126224801.A2633@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg00477.html Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > Is there a standard stabs convention for this? If so, it would be a > good idea to make development GCC emit it. Yes, there's the encoding developed by Sun, described in the GNU stabs manual. It looks to me like GDB is ready to consume this info, so getting GCC to emit it would be great. Until that's done, however, this test should XFAIL, so other engineers won't waste their time re-analyzing the failure. (I don't mean to imply that you disagree; I just want to make things clear to the test suite maintainers.) From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15248 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2001 04:19:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15226 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2001 04:19:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zwingli.cygnus.com) (208.245.165.35) by hostedprojects.ges.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2001 04:19:56 -0000 Received: by zwingli.cygnus.com (Postfix, from userid 442) id 33E3E5E9D8; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:21:12 -0500 (EST) To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: GCC stabs don't contain prototype info References: <20011127034423.DF2B75E9D8@zwingli.cygnus.com> <20011126224801.A2633@nevyn.them.org> From: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:38:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Daniel Jacobowitz's message of Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:48:01 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00262.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20011113153800.IRGNJQUDMVU7GfQHRhBYIAbpIIaAEoLHMZJC5z9B7RQ@z> Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > Is there a standard stabs convention for this? If so, it would be a > good idea to make development GCC emit it. Yes, there's the encoding developed by Sun, described in the GNU stabs manual. It looks to me like GDB is ready to consume this info, so getting GCC to emit it would be great. Until that's done, however, this test should XFAIL, so other engineers won't waste their time re-analyzing the failure. (I don't mean to imply that you disagree; I just want to make things clear to the test suite maintainers.)