3.3 PATCH: Handle mips gas 2.13 -mdebug switch

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Sun Jul 21 07:56:00 GMT 2002


On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 03:41:19PM -0700, echristo@potter.sfbay.redhat.com wrote:
> > Eh?  No!  I went to too much trouble getting MIPS/Linux moved away from
> > -mdebug.  And -no-mdebug doesn't mean terribly much if you aren't
> > generating stabs data, anyway.
> 
> OK. Barring linux.
> 
> The real question is if anyone sees a need for SDB debugging anymore...

I don't see why you should default any ELF target to -mdebug; I think
that only COFF targets and people with very particular needs should be
doing this.  This could depend on what SGI's debuggers like, I
suppose...

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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