Testsuite failures in gdb.dwarf2/{dup-psym,mac-fileno}.exp

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Fri Feb 2 11:41:00 GMT 2007


On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:29:26AM +0100, Pierre Muller wrote:
> On Wed, January 31, 2007 17:43, Andreas Schwab said:
> > There are two other testcases with invalid DWARF sections.  Checked in
> as
> > obvious.
> 
>  I was just wandering if this would also be correct
> on a chip that a 64bit memory addresses.
> 
>   Does dwarf not support these cpus?

No, it's correct.  There are two DWARF-2 binary formats, one 32-bit and
the other 64-bit.  But you do not need to use the 64-bit format just
because you have a 64-bit CPU - you only need to use it if you have
more than 2GB or so of debug information.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
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