Mixing 32-bit and 64-bit DWARF2/3 sections

Thiemo Seufer ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
Mon Nov 8 23:46:00 GMT 2004


James E Wilson wrote:
[snip]
> Besides the technical details, you will also need to get political buy
> in from affected parties for an ABI change, which means mainly the
> GNU/Linux mips64 folks.

FWIW, I doubt going back unconditionally to a 32bit format is the right
thing to do for a fully 64bit ABI. Applications tend to grow further,
as does the accompanying debug info, so the 32bit limit comes closer.


Thiemo



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