From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 8 0:19: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from njord.bart.nl (njord.bart.nl [194.158.170.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B042D37BAED for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:18:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (lucifer.is.an.elder.of.the.ninth-circle.org [195.38.216.226]) by njord.bart.nl (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e587Ipg93953; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:18:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA13148; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:15:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:15:07 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Martin Cracauer , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plans to change our debugging format to DWARF2 Message-ID: <20000608091507.E1587@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <20000606124116.A16993@cons.org> <20000606080031.F78380@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000606080031.F78380@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@NUXI.com on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 08:00:31AM -0700 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20000606 20:01], David O'Brien (obrien@NUXI.com) wrote: >On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:41:17PM +0200, Martin Cracauer wrote: >> Any idea what the Linux folks are going to do? When they switch, we >> have to do it anyway (to get continued support by GNU maintainers). > >Sparc-linux has made the switch. Windriver(sp?) has made the change. >And DWARF2 is the only debugging format supported by the IA-64 ABI. I'd say go for it. But of course we want to MFC this to 4.x as well some point in the future. Along with all the other compiler changes. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Haste makes waste... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message