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Re: Testsuite failures in gdb.dwarf2/{dup-psym,mac-fileno}.exp
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Pierre Muller <muller at ics dot u-strasbg dot fr>
- Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 06:40:58 -0500
- Subject: Re: Testsuite failures in gdb.dwarf2/{dup-psym,mac-fileno}.exp
- References: <jelkjj87v4.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <2674.130.79.112.72.1170412166.squirrel@www-ics.u-strasbg.fr>
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:29:26AM +0100, Pierre Muller wrote:
> On Wed, January 31, 2007 17:43, Andreas Schwab said:
> > There are two other testcases with invalid DWARF sections. Checked in
> as
> > obvious.
>
> I was just wandering if this would also be correct
> on a chip that a 64bit memory addresses.
>
> Does dwarf not support these cpus?
No, it's correct. There are two DWARF-2 binary formats, one 32-bit and
the other 64-bit. But you do not need to use the 64-bit format just
because you have a 64-bit CPU - you only need to use it if you have
more than 2GB or so of debug information.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery