Re: ix86 PE/COFF DWARF register numbering

Brian Ford
2004-04-19T16:34:22Z

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 at 21:06:37 -0500 (CDT) Brian Ford wrote:
>
> > And note that for DWARF 2, [DJGPP] uses the svr4 map, just like every
> > other ix86 target I know of (except the current PE proposal).
>
> This was done at Mark Kettenis's suggestion, back in 2001, as you
> will see in the thread I cited a few days ago.

Yes, I saw that suggestion here:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-07/msg00398.html

and commented on it here:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-07/msg00398.html

> In the DJGPP project, we simply took that suggestion and implemented it
> in GCC when DWARF-2 support for DJGPP was first added to GCC.

but there was no follow-up that stated which of the two possible
suggestions were chosen. Taking together FSF GCC sources and GDB sources
showed the issue was still unresolved.

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