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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:04:02AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:49:11AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > > > I am having the second thought. The gas change is too big for me. May > > > I propose to do these: > > > > > > 1. Modify the mips gas to take either > > > > > > .file "foo.c" > > > or > > > > > > .file 1 "foo.c" > > > > > > as the first line for stabs, dwarf and mdebug. > > > > > > 2. Modify gcc 3 to emit > > > > > > .file "foo.c" > > > > > > as the first line for stabs, dwarf and mdebug. > > > > > > In this way, the new gas will still work with the existing compiler > > > and the dwarf/stabs output will be very similar to x86. That means you > > > have to use the new gas for gcc 3. I will post my gas/gcc changes > > > shortly. > > > > What advantage do you claim this has over the patches I posted (which > > My gas change will be very small and the dwarf/stabs asm output will be > very similar to x86, which is well tested. > > > have already gone in on the GCC side, and which do not make GCC3 > > require a new binutils version for stabs output)? > > What is wrong to require a new binutils for a new gcc? Also if you do > > # .../configure > # make bootstrap > > you will need a new binutils for mips anyway. > > > > > Also, your patch will be incompatible with traditional MIPS assemblers > > and their use of .file. All the world is not GNU as! > > > > You haven't seen my gcc patch. How do you know it isn't compatible > with non gas? Here are 2 patches for mips debug, one for gas and the other for gcc. H.J.
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