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Re: [rfc/NEWS] GDB works with GCC -feliminate-dwarf2-dups.
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan at debian dot org>
- Cc: mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:41:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: [rfc/NEWS] GDB works with GCC -feliminate-dwarf2-dups.
- References: <4172B5F4.nailMEV1154GO@mindspring.com> <20041017183143.GA22628@nevyn.them.org>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:31:44 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>
> GDB now supports a more compact representation of DWARF-2 debug
> information using DW_FORM_ref_addr references. These are produced by
> some commercial compilers, and by GCC's -feliminate-dwarf2-dups
> option. You must use GCC 3.3.4 or later to use this option.
>
> How's that?
I liked Michael's original version better: it is more user-oriented.
If it is important to mention technicalities like DW_FORM_ref_addr,
then I think they should come _after_ Michael's user-oriented
description.