Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb

Cary Coutant
2013-01-14T19:45:35Z

>> Next, I compiled a 5000-line C++ source file at both -O0 and -O2.
>
> I have to assume that David is working with C code, as stabs debugging
> for C++ is nearly unusable.

I assumed that too, but I figured C++ would be worse than C as far as
DWARF vs. stabs size. I'd still be interested to figure out what's
causing that 11.5x expansion.

-cary