New Ada failure

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Fri Jan 5 03:59:00 GMT 2007


On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:56:48AM +0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I added a big comment in the code to explain why I use the debugging
> info and not the symbol table:

I think I looked right at it and didn't grok what it meant.

> I am not sure why you stripped your libgnat.so. From your other messages,
> it sounds like something that you must do. At least with GNAT Pro,
> the runtime is built at -O2 and without -g, except for a few select units
> which are deliberately built with -g (and often -O1 instead of -O2).
> To us, if you strip the runtime, then you break the compiler-debugger
> interface.
> 
> Would you consider not stripping libgnat.so?

Not up to me - I have Debian's gnat packages installed.  Is this
documented, i.e. it should be considered a bug in those packages?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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