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To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>, ezannoni@redhat.com,
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Subject: Re: Phasing out Dwarf 1?
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From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
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Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 17:09:00 -0000
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Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:

> (we might also determine that such systems require an ISO-C compiler
> (e.g., GCC) to build GDB and hence argue that GDB can assume dwarf-2
> is present.)

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.

        - Nathan