detect special mips64le dwarf2 line number length encoding

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:13:58PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ask a silly question, but MIPS64 Linux is a brand new userspace port. 
> > Why are we using the non-standard DWARF-2 format?  Why not do it the
> > normal way?
> 
> Besides the intent of compatibility with Irix, there are places where
> you don't really know whether the object file at hand is for GNU/Linux
> or Irix, so using different formats could be, erhm, interesting.  Not
> that I've investigated this possibility in much depth, mind you.

While I hate to dump more work on you, I would really rather we pursue
this than propogate the nonstandard IRIX approach to this.  I really
don't think it would be much of a difficulty.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer