Re: Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-09-28T21:07:07Z

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:41:20PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Separate debug info is very much an embedded feature - it lets embedded
> > distros make optional all the debug info for all those embedded C and
> > C++ libraries.
>
> Still, it requires a feature in Binutils that only exists on
> GNU/Linux.

That is not correct. It works for any ELF target.

> > CFI and location expresions benefit all programmers and are a
> > significant new feature (but are not exactly user visible so lack the
> > "gee wiz" factor, which is why I didn't mention them).
>
> Exactly: this is not a user-level feature, but more like a bugfix.

Hardly. Don't you consider improved debugging of optimized code to be
a feature? Especially considering how abysmal support is now.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer