From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fernando Nasser To: Stan Shebs Cc: Fernando Nasser , Michael Snyder , gdb@sources.redhat.com, vinschen@redhat.com Subject: Re: Stabs or Dwarf Was: [PATCH]: testsuite/gdb.base/constvars.exp Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:02:00 -0000 Message-id: <3BB24F75.A33E707E@redhat.com> References: <20010925192434.M29024@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3BB0C224.AB324D56@cygnus.com> <3BB0CB81.8385E123@redhat.com> <3BB0F122.3E45B3ED@cygnus.com> <3BB236BB.F50E045E@cygnus.com> <3BB24ABF.1072EE55@apple.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00212.html Hi Stan, Thanks for your comments. Stan Shebs wrote: > > I can't think of a completely reliable test on binary files. For > instance, in original a.out, stabs are plain symbols, not in a > distinctly-named section. You also have the problem of an executable > maybe having libraries compiled with stabs, and main prog with dwarf, > and objdump can't distinguish. > True. I was thinking just in terms of the testsuite. Most test programs are a single file. Could we test just the object file for that one? Another idea: if we can't say t is stabs but we can say it is dwarf, we could implement a gdb_is_dwarf instead. Would that help? Regards, Fernando -- Fernando Nasser Red Hat Canada Ltd. E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com 2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300 Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9