Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:41:20PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Separate debug info is very much an embedded feature - it lets embedded 
> > distros make optional all the debug info for all those embedded C and 
> > C++ libraries.
> 
> Still, it requires a feature in Binutils that only exists on
> GNU/Linux.

That is not correct.  It works for any ELF target.

> > CFI and location expresions benefit all programmers and are a 
> > significant new feature (but are not exactly user visible so lack the 
> > "gee wiz" factor, which is why I didn't mention them).
> 
> Exactly: this is not a user-level feature, but more like a bugfix.

Hardly.  Don't you consider improved debugging of optimized code to be
a feature?  Especially considering how abysmal support is now.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer