From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11701 invoked by alias); 28 Sep 2003 21:07:07 -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 11694 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2003 21:07:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Sep 2003 21:07:06 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.22 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3ikv-0005od-LY; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:07:01 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:30:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ? Message-ID: <20030928210701.GA22100@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <6654-Wed24Sep2003201904+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F72FF8C.3080104@redhat.com> <6654-Sat27Sep2003132618+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F75A491.4010203@redhat.com> <1659-Sat27Sep2003204134+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F75D8D3.2090207@redhat.com> <2427-Sun28Sep2003102631+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F76EC92.6010005@redhat.com> <4098-Sun28Sep2003234119+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4098-Sun28Sep2003234119+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00350.txt.bz2 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