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Re: PATCH: Use stabs for Linux/mips (Re: binutils is broken on ELF/MIPS)

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 07:51:40PM -0700, Doug Evans wrote:
> Richard Henderson writes:
>  > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:51:01PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
>  > > > > It turned out gas doesn't support dwarf debug info for Linux/mipsel
>  > > > > at all. ".file" and ".loc" don't do much for dwarf.
>  > 
>  > These directives aren't required for proper operation.
>  > If they're not present, then gcc will emit the data itself
>  > with labels and offsets.
>  > 
>  > If there are any remaining binutils bugs, then they should
>  > be fixed in binutils.  We can require a later binutils 
>  > release for Linux/mipsel.
> 
> fyi, heads up, and all that ...
> 
> See gdb pr 456 for a bug where gdb can handle .file/.loc but
> can't handle the raw primitives emitted by gcc.

FYI, I looked at the asm output from gcc 3.1.1 for Linux/mipsel.
It has .file/.loc.


H.J.
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