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Re: [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix)
On May 23, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Yao Qi wrote:
> On 05/23/2011 06:29 PM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> with AIX 7, the xcoff binary file format now supports dwarf2. This is a
>> huge step forward as the previous debugging format was a varation of stabs.
>>
>> But (and there is always a but) this is not fully standard dwarf2 as the
>> section names differ. The first two patches deal with that in the most
>> elegant way I could figure.
>>
>> The last two patches simply add the dwarf2 support for xcoff.
>>
>> Manually tested on AIX.
>
> Is there any reason that prevent you running testsuite on AIX?
Short answer: I was never able to have a reliable run: expect fails randomly.
> If
> dwarf2 has been supported on AIX, we may have to add corresponding
> target triplet into proc dwarf2_support in testsuite/lib/dwarf.exp.
Only if dwarf2 is enabled by default, which is not true in the official gcc.
Tristan.