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Re: Phasing out Dwarf 1?
- From: mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
- To: jkj at sco dot com, shebs at apple dot com
- Cc: cagney at gnu dot org, ezannoni at redhat dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com,jimb at redhat dot com, mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com, nathanw at wasabisystems dot com
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 01:02:12 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Phasing out Dwarf 1?
Stan Shebs writes:
> But how is it going to get tested? Experience shows that untested parts
> of GDB bitrot pretty quickly, and without any volunteers to let us know
> when things break and/or fix them when they do, the claim of support
> is just misleading to users.
On this subject, the last time I tried dwarf-1 with the gdb test suite,
I got 46 ERROR, 39 UNRESOLVED, and 3463 FAIL. This was in February 2003.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2003-02/msg00293.html
IIRC, the test suite took about nine hours to run, compared to fifteen
minutes for dwarf-2 or stabs+.
I don't know if this is systemic failure in the test suite or
systemic failure in gdb.
Michael C