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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
Cc: julian@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	dan@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Accept DWARF 3-format debug info
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1wtyss8o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vt2wtbrjkll.fsf@theseus.home.> (message from Jim Blandy on Thu, 	08 Jun 2006 16:25:42 -0700)

> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,  Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:25:42 -0700
> 
> I think this patch is right.  It's true that GDB doesn't support all
> of DWARF 3, but GDB's general philosophy is to garner as much
> information as it can, and punt the rest, which works well with
> DWARF's philosophy.  So GDB shouldn't just punt entire compilation
> units because they're marked as DWARF 3.

I agree with the philosophy, but the devil is usually in the
details...

In this case, what will happen when GDB sees a DWARF-3 feature it
doesn't yet support?  I think we should make sure it displays a
warning message, instead of throwing an internal error (or some
similar fatal reaction).


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-09  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-08 22:48 Julian Brown
2006-06-08 23:25 ` Jim Blandy
2006-06-08 23:59   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-18  1:10     ` Mark Kettenis
2006-06-18  4:40       ` Jim Blandy
2006-06-20 19:53     ` RFC: Support DW_FORM_ref_addr as described in DWARF 3 Jim Blandy
2006-07-12 21:21       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-09  7:29   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-06-09 12:25     ` [PATCH] Accept DWARF 3-format debug info Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-09 16:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-09 17:20         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-09 19:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-09 12:39     ` Julian Brown
2006-06-09 16:39       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-09 23:18 David Anderson

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