From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12577 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2002 16:39:48 -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 12497 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2002 16:39:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Feb 2002 16:39:45 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B2C3E02; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:39:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C5AC4C7.30207@cygnus.com> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 08:39:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020103 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Helffrich +44 117 954 5437 Cc: drow@mvista.com, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, law@redhat.com Subject: Re: Debug info for 'complex' types References: <200202011553.g11Frmh03425@olivine.geology.bristol.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 > 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