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RE: using GDB 5 on Solaris 7 with Sun WS5.0
- To: 'Daniel Berlin' <dan at www dot cgsoftware dot com>, Tanvir Hassan <tanvir dot hassan at tumisoftware dot com>
- Subject: RE: using GDB 5 on Solaris 7 with Sun WS5.0
- From: Tanvir Hassan <tanvir dot hassan at tumisoftware dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:56:52 -0800
- Cc: 'Michael Elizabeth Chastain' <chastain at cygnus dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Hmmm. Can I use a c++filt/dem type program that can take mangled names and
produce demangled names to get around the name mangling problem?
Also, I still cannot debug a program unless I include "-xs". Is the psymtab
stuff not meant to deal with non "-xs" code? Or am I stuck using "-xs" to
debug under WS5.0 and GDB on Solaris 7?
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Berlin [mailto:dan@www.cgsoftware.com]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:35 PM
To: Tanvir Hassan
Cc: 'Michael Elizabeth Chastain'; gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: RE: using GDB 5 on Solaris 7 with Sun WS5.0
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Tanvir Hassan wrote:
> Here's the stuff I get from "man CC" on SunWorkshop 5 C++:
>
> Note that -compat=5 (which lets me use STL) will set the __cplusplus macro
> to "199711L". I don't know if that helps in determining which ABI those
> guys are following. Also, I tried to compile helloworld.cpp with -g and
see
> if the newest snapshot (23/Mar/2001) could debug it without me resorting
to
> -xs and it cannot. Is there an option or config.h option that I need to
> enable psymtab stuff?
Nope.
It's automagic.
>
>
> -compat[=(4|5)]
> Sets the compiler to be compatible with 4.0.1,
> 4.1, and 4.2 compilers; or with full 5.0. This
> option controls the preprocessor __cplusplus
> macro.
>
> The C++ compiler has two principal modes. One
> accepts the semantics and language defined by the
> Annotated C++ Reference Manual (ARM) and used in
> the 4.2 compiler (the compatibility mode, -com-
> pat=4). The other accepts constructs according to
> the ANSI/ISO standard (standards mode, -compat=5).
> These two modes are incompatible with each other
> because the ANSI/ISO standard forces significant,
> incompatible changes in name mangling, vtable lay-
> out, and other ABI details. These two modes are
> differentiated by the -compat option as shown in
> the following values.
You are misreading it. All this means is that they changed their ABI to be
able to support the ISO standard, not that they are using a standard ABI.
They are most certainly not. We have 0 support for their ABI, so you
won't be able to debug in any useful way.
> > Value
Meaning >
> -compat=4 Compile for compatibility with C++
> 4.0.1, C++ 4.1, and C++ 4.2 (Sets
> __cplusplus macro to 1.)
>
> -compat=5 Compile with full C++ 5.0 features.
> (Sets __cplusplus macro to
> 199711L.)
>
> Defaults:
>
> If the -compat option is not specified, -compat=5
> is assumed. If only -compat is specified, -com-
> pat=4 is assumed.
>
> Interactions:
>
> The -xarch=v9 option and the -compat[=4] option
> are not supported when used together.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain [mailto:chastain@cygnus.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 9:23 AM
> To: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com; tanvir.hassan@tumisoftware.com
> Subject: Re: using GDB 5 on Solaris 7 with Sun WS5.0
>
>
> Hi Tanvir,
>
> > I have heard that someone might have changed GDB to do "lazy" loading
> > of symbols by reading them from the *.o instead of the exe and thus
> > obviating the need for "-xs", but I don't see any mention of this in
> > any of the source.
>
> That is the "partial symtab" (psymtab) code.
>
> > 2) the name mangling/vtable scheme of Sun WS5.0 is apparently using the
> > ISO/ANSI ABI standard and GDB cannot deal with it (it needs an new BFD
to
> > handle this? or is there a generic name de-mangling place in the code?)
>
> Recent snapshots of gdb, and the current CVS version of gdb, operate with
> the new multi-vendor C++ ABI:
>
> http://reality.sgi.com/dehnert_engr/cxx/cxx-summary.html
>
> If you could provide a URL or an ISO reference number for that "ISO/ANSI
> ABI standard", I could check if it's the same as the "new ABI" standard
> that we're working on supporting.
>
> Michael Elizabeth Chastain
> <chastain@redhat.com>
> "love without fear"
>