From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31727 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2003 19:55:03 -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 31694 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2003 19:55:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jackfruit.Stanford.EDU) (171.64.38.136) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2003 19:55:01 -0000 Received: (from carlton@localhost) by jackfruit.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h0HJt0617413; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:55:00 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: jackfruit.Stanford.EDU: carlton set sender to carlton@math.stanford.edu using -f To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: drow@mvista.com, gdb Subject: GDB DWARF-1 C++ support References: <200301171928.h0HJS8805276@duracef.shout.net> From: David Carlton Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:55:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200301171928.h0HJS8805276@duracef.shout.net> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00321.txt.bz2 [ I've retitled this bit of the thread and moved it to gdb@. ] On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:28:08 -0600, Michael Elizabeth Chastain said: > Here is what I want to do about gdb DWARF-1 C++ support: > make a policy decision whether gdb supports DWARF-1 with C++ > if yes: > remove all the setup_xfail_format DWARF-1 calls > add regular DWARF-1 testing > file about 50 new PR's for all the new FAIL's > file PR's against gcc for the external bugs (and they will hate us) > if no: > document that gdb supports C++ with DWARF-2 or stabs+ but not DWARF-1 > add a DWARF-1 check to "skip_cplus_tests" > remove all the setup_xfail_format DWARF-1 calls Yup. I'm not familiar with DWARF-1, so conceivably it's possible that we want to support C++ DWARF-1 debugging but that DWARF-1 is by nature incapable of supporting the full range of C++ features, in which case we'd only skip certain C++ tests under DWARF-1. But I'm really not worried about that possibility for now. Anyways, my kneejerk reaction is that no, we shouldn't support it: I have a hard time imagining a scenario where it would be a profitable use of resources to work on supporting DWARF-1. What platforms use it as their native debugging format? What C++ compilers run on those platforms? David Carlton carlton@math.stanford.edu