Stabs or Dwarf Was: [PATCH]: testsuite/gdb.base/constvars.exp

[Fernando Nasser]

Hi Stan,

Thanks for your comments.

Stan Shebs wrote:
> 
> I can't think of a completely reliable test on binary files.  For
> instance, in original a.out, stabs are plain symbols, not in a
> distinctly-named section.  You also have the problem of an executable
> maybe having libraries compiled with stabs, and main prog with dwarf,
> and objdump can't distinguish.
> 

True.

I was thinking just in terms of the testsuite.  Most test programs are
a single file.  Could we test just the object file for that one?

Another idea: if we can't say t is stabs but we can say it is dwarf,
we could implement a gdb_is_dwarf instead.  Would that help?

Regards,
Fernando


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