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Subject: Re: PATCH: Use stabs for Linux/mips (Re: binutils is broken on ELF/MIPS)
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Richard Henderson writes:
 > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:51:01PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
 > > > > It turned out gas doesn't support dwarf debug info for Linux/mipsel
 > > > > at all. ".file" and ".loc" don't do much for dwarf.
 > 
 > These directives aren't required for proper operation.
 > If they're not present, then gcc will emit the data itself
 > with labels and offsets.
 > 
 > If there are any remaining binutils bugs, then they should
 > be fixed in binutils.  We can require a later binutils 
 > release for Linux/mipsel.

fyi, heads up, and all that ...

See gdb pr 456 for a bug where gdb can handle .file/.loc but
can't handle the raw primitives emitted by gcc.