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RE: [RFC] Improve stabs debugging for mingw64 executables loaded at high addresses


> >  Comments welcome,
> 
> I think that some 64 bits targets have 8 bytes for the address.

  
  Of course, dwarf debugging doesn't suffer from this limitation,
and uses 8-byte for addresses.
  This is the default format for most 64-bit targets,
and it is the preferred debugging format for 64-bit
because of this 4-byte limitation of stabs...
  So this is really a marginal case that I presented here.


  The thing is that, for Free Pascal, we have lots of
troubles with DWARF (and some 64-bit specific), 
thus I would like to be able to use STABS format (which 
is less troublesome) but that also didn't work
because of this high address default base used by this compiler.

Pierre
  


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