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From: Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@embecosm.com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org,	binutils@zalov.cz
Subject: Re: stabs changes for 64 bit targets
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 16:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130513121538.scq8ll234ccc4oc0-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130513145224.GY1377@tucnak.redhat.com>

Quoting Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>:

> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:45:46AM -0400, David Taylor wrote:
>> There are problems when using current STABS debug format for 64 bit
>> targets.
>
> Why are you considering extending STABS at this point?
> STABS support might very well be dropped altogether from GCC 4.9 or the next
> release, people just should use DWARF[234] everywhere.

I find stabs is still helpful when you try to inspect the assembly output
by hand (or more precisely, by visual inspection in a text editor / pager).


  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-13 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <18975.1368456346@usendtaylorx2l>
2013-05-13 14:52 ` Jakub Jelinek
2013-05-13 16:15   ` Joern Rennecke [this message]
2013-05-14 14:38   ` David Taylor
2013-05-14 15:24     ` David Edelsohn

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