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Re: as -gstabs does not work on ia64
> Hi Andreas,
>
>
>> How about this:
>>
>> case OPTION_GSTABS:
>> +#ifdef TC_IA64
>> + as_fatal (_("--gstabs is not supported for ia64"));
>> +#else
>> debug_type = DEBUG_STABS;
>> +#endif
>> break;
>
>
> I would prefer not to see target specific code enter the generic
> sources like this. (Even though it has been done elsewhere). I would
> prefer to see either the IA64 backend detecting that --gstabs had been
> specified and issuing an error message (say during md_parse_args) or
> else have tc-ia64.h define a macro which is then tested in
> parse_args().
Can it be fixed? Source level assembler debuging is an increasingly
popular feature in GDB.
Andrew