From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com>
To: dan@cgsoftware.com
Cc: jtc@redback.com, gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: stabs vs. dwarf-2 for C programs
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:37:00 -0000
Message-id: <200104130637.CAA07371@delorie.com>
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> From: Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>
> Date: 12 Apr 2001 22:54:44 -0400
> 
> jtc@redback.com (J.T. Conklin) writes:
> 
> > In general, are there any advantages for using dwarf-2 over 
> > stabs debugging symbols for C (not C++) programs?
> 
> Unless you want optimized code debugging, only space savings
> (theoretical, of course, right now. For C, anyway).

I _always_ debug optimized code (I think doing otherwise is not wise,
to put it gently).  What are the advantages of dwarf2 for debugging
optimized C code?