From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5206 invoked by alias); 4 May 2004 17:19:54 -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 5159 invoked from network); 4 May 2004 17:19:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.ut.sco.com) (216.250.130.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 May 2004 17:19:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 16602 invoked from network); 4 May 2004 17:19:50 -0000 Received: from vms.caldera.com (216.250.130.31) by mail.ut.sco.com with SMTP; 4 May 2004 17:19:50 -0000 Received: from vms.caldera.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BD3A004; Tue, 4 May 2004 11:19:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: from sco.com (shrike.pdev.ca.caldera.com [132.147.65.3]) by vms.caldera.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB691A002; Tue, 4 May 2004 11:19:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4097CE64.4040101@sco.com> Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 17:19:00 -0000 From: Kean Johnston Organization: The SCO Group User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Nathan J. Williams" Cc: Andrew Cagney , Michael Elizabeth Chastain , ezannoni@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, jimb@redhat.com Subject: Re: Phasing out Dwarf 1? References: <20040503155621.CF3194B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <4097B8C6.10805@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00026.txt.bz2 > This seems like a poor argument. The availibility and suitability of > modern GCC for building GDB does not imply that modern GCC will be > suitable for building the application to be debugged. I agree. I think phasing out a whole debugging format is ill-advised. Most people dont want to keep around multiple versions of a tool. If I need to debug an old binary becuase the libc I replaced today is breaking something, I think I have a reasonable expectation of being able to do so. I think it is quite appropriate to phase out the *generation* of said format, but not its interpretation in a debugger. Kean