From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23870 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2003 01:24:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23863 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2003 01:24:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 11 Mar 2003 01:24:16 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18saOR-0001dz-00; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:25:31 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18sYV3-0005nD-00; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:24:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 01:24:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: David Carlton Cc: gdb , Michael Elizabeth Chastain Subject: Re: GCC, stabs, mangled names Message-ID: <20030311012413.GA22236@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: David Carlton , gdb , Michael Elizabeth Chastain References: <20030311005656.GA20906@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00153.txt.bz2 On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:20:32PM -0800, David Carlton wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:56:56 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz said: > > > It's unclear what the right thing to do is. Stabs is underspecified > > (and underimplemented too). Someone needs to decide what would be > > useful. > > I compared this with 2.95.3, and it seems that GCC switched from only > using mangled names to only using demangled names. If we can't have > both, it seems to me that only having mangled names is more useful. > > Did anybody from the GDB side ask them to switch the output that they > produced? If so, what was the rationale? FYI, my position on stabs has crystalized over time: I don't care, use DWARF-2. Even on Solaris if you use the GNU tools I believe DWARF-2 is available as an option. If someone hits a platform that they care about where this isn't an option, and they want to make the stabs support work again, then we can deal with it - only then. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer