gcov on gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:17:15PM -0600, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> Elena Zannoni writes:
> > In doing so, I've noticed that a lot of lines in the stabread.c file
> > are never executed because they are old functions (1996) to support
> > cfront.  I think we could obsolete this stuff.  I've not found anything
> > in a google search for cfront that was more recent than 1995.
> 
> More generally, I wish gdb had documentation about which compilers,
> assemblers, and linkers that gdb supports, especially for C++.

C++: in practice, GNU GCC 2.95, and GNU GCC 3.x.  In theory, HP aCC
also, but I haven't gotten around to seeing how well it works; and
frankly, the HP debug info is so overengineered that it's a royal pain
to work with.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer