From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 2 13:44:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from c1mailgw1.prontomail.com (c1mailgw1.prontomail.com [208.178.29.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5247537B6A5 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: by c1mailgw1.prontomail.com (NPlex 4.5.049) id 39089AB300342735 for arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:44:45 -0700 Received: from 200.41.109.149 by SmtpServer for ; Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:33:09 +0000 Message-ID: <39381E39.5A14B897@asme.org> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 15:51:05 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plans to change our debugging format to DWARF2 References: <20000602112555.A85602@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > The GDB developers have encourage me to change our native debugging > format from STABS to DWARF2 (for ELF binaries). This is your chance to > comment before I make my decision. > I think it's good; it seems like at least Unixware did that move. Here are two links I found in a fast peek at altavista: http://iecc.com/comparch/article/92-05-026 http://www.eagercon.com/dwarf/dwarf2std.htm Hopefully it will also be good for other languages. cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message