From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4698 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 2004 15:31:20 -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 4668 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2004 15:31:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 31 Mar 2004 15:31:19 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1B8hgX-0007mq-Ul; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:31:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:57:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eric Botcazou Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: STABS --> DWARF-2 on sparc-sun-solaris2.x (x >= 7) Message-ID: <20040331153121.GA29897@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eric Botcazou , gdb@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <200403311129.54987.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403311129.54987.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00291.txt.bz2 On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:23:41PM +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote: > Hi, > > In the light of the problems in the C compiler with the STABS debugging > format, Mark has agreed to switch to DWARF-2 as the default debugging format > on sparc-sun-solaris2.x (x >= 7) for GCC 3.4.0. > > Both DBX 7 and GDB 5.3/6.0 seem to grok it without the need for a special > command line switch and DWARF-2 has been the default for 64-bit code for a > while so the move will probably cause very few problems. > > Are there any specific difficulties to be expected on the GDB side? Do > changes need to be made for the upcoming GDB 6.1? No, GDB will need no changes. It'll just work. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer