From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 603 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2003 13:30:15 -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 594 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2003 13:30:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2003 13:30:14 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.22 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3y6P-0004h8-1H; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:30:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:48:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: ac131313@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ? Message-ID: <20030929133013.GB17873@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , ac131313@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <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> <20030928210701.GA22100@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: 2003-09/txt/msg00371.txt.bz2 On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:15:08AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:07:01 -0400 > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > > > 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. > > Perhaps I don't know something: I thought that separate debug info > required support from Binutils, to be able to produce the files with > the debug info. I'm sure at some point someone said here that this > option is not available on all systems. Isn't that right? What is > the exact procedure of producing the separate debug info? It's not available on non-ELF targets :) Although, it could be implemented, if anyone cared to do so. It requires use of either elfutils or of binutils' objcopy program. See the manual for --only-keep-debug and --add-gnu-debuglink. > > Don't you consider improved debugging of optimized code to be > > a feature? Especially considering how abysmal support is now. > > I consider this a bugfix. Having both implemented and used it, I do not. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer