From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ?
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030928210701.GA22100@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4098-Sun28Sep2003234119+0300-eliz@elta.co.il>
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:41:20PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Separate debug info is very much an embedded feature - it lets embedded
> > distros make optional all the debug info for all those embedded C and
> > C++ libraries.
>
> Still, it requires a feature in Binutils that only exists on
> GNU/Linux.
That is not correct. It works for any ELF target.
> > CFI and location expresions benefit all programmers and are a
> > significant new feature (but are not exactly user visible so lack the
> > "gee wiz" factor, which is why I didn't mention them).
>
> Exactly: this is not a user-level feature, but more like a bugfix.
Hardly. Don't you consider improved debugging of optimized code to be
a feature? Especially considering how abysmal support is now.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-28 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-24 10:40 Saravanan
2003-09-24 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-24 22:41 ` Jim Blandy
2003-09-25 4:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-09-25 21:44 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-27 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-27 17:49 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-27 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-27 18:48 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-28 8:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-28 19:44 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-28 21:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-28 21:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-09-29 5:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-29 14:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-09-28 22:25 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-29 5:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-29 14:52 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-29 15:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-01 21:49 ` Features vs infrastructure (was Re: Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ?) Stan Shebs
2003-10-02 3:29 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-02 3:47 ` Stan Shebs
2003-10-02 5:31 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-02 6:42 ` Stan Shebs
2003-10-02 7:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2003-10-02 19:18 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-02 6:04 ` Stan Shebs
2003-10-02 6:29 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-30 5:43 ` Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ? Jim Blandy
2003-09-30 21:14 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-09-28 22:50 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-09-29 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-29 13:21 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
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