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Re: Phasing out Dwarf 1?
- From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw at wasabisystems dot com>
- To: Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com>, ezannoni at redhat dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, jimb at redhat dot com
- Date: 04 May 2004 13:09:06 -0400
- Subject: Re: Phasing out Dwarf 1?
- Organization: Wasabi Systems, Inc.
- References: <20040503155621.CF3194B104@berman.michael-chastain.com><4097B8C6.10805@gnu.org>
Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:
> (we might also determine that such systems require an ISO-C compiler
> (e.g., GCC) to build GDB and hence argue that GDB can assume dwarf-2
> is present.)
This seems like a poor argument. The availibility and suitability of
modern GCC for building GDB does not imply that modern GCC will be
suitable for building the application to be debugged.
- Nathan