From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: George Helffrich +44 117 954 5437 <george@gly.bris.ac.uk>
Cc: drow@mvista.com, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com,
law@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Debug info for 'complex' types
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 08:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C5AC4C7.30207@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202011553.g11Frmh03425@olivine.geology.bristol.ac.uk>
> Bug compatibility does not seem to be a desirable goal in g77. It seems to me
> that the divergence in established use of complex stabs lay in g77's method,
> and the patch corrects it. However, the issue should now be clear and the
> empowered ones may decide.
For g77 perhaphs. For GDB it is important. (To give a generalization)
People tend to upgrade their debugger long before they upgrade their
compiler. Consequently GDB is very much concerned with working with
more than just the current compilers.
Daniel write:
> Also note that the newer of your two compilers above - the Solaris 2.7
> package is, I assume, newer - 'R' is used instead of 'r'. That'll be
> handled correctly in GDB whatever the outcome of this discussion (or at
> least separately).
Is there a reason to not copy sun?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-01 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-01 7:53 George Helffrich +44 117 954 5437
2002-02-01 8:39 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-02-01 9:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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2002-02-01 2:34 George Helffrich +44 117 954 5437
2002-02-01 7:26 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-30 20:26 Daniel Jacobowitz
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