From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4904 invoked by alias); 5 May 2004 21:33:54 -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 4895 invoked from network); 5 May 2004 21:33:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mclean.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.57) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 May 2004 21:33:53 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BLU12-00049f-00; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:33:20 -0400 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id C55CC4B104; Wed, 5 May 2004 17:33:34 -0400 (EDT) To: cagney@gnu.org, mec.gnu@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Phasing out Dwarf 1? Cc: ezannoni@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, jimb@redhat.com Message-Id: <20040505213334.C55CC4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 21:33:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney writes: > If you installed operating system X, including the vendor compiler, and > typed `cc -g ..` would the debug format be dwarf-1? > > Of those, how many do we still support. It's kinda difficult to answer any question about "for all operating system X ...". I don't know! For the question "for all operating system X such that gdb HEAD has configuration machinery", someone could in principle answer that question by checking all the systems in configure.host. However we don't even check that all those systems build before releasing gdb (or, if someone does check, nobody publishes a report on gdb@ or gdb-testers@ about it). I don't know how many of the systems in configure.host come with a non-gcc vendor compiler that emits dwarf-1. For the question "for all operating system X such that someone has mailed a test report to gdb-testers about that OS in the past N years", I could research that. But it would take a lot of time, and I'd rather drop my proposal and keep dwarf-1 as-is until somebody draws up an explicit list of supported operating systems and compilers for gdb. Michael C