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Date:      Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:28:51 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Plans to change our debugging format to DWARF2
Message-ID:  <39394E63.A17E7D78@softweyr.com>
References:  <20000602112555.A85602@dragon.nuxi.com> <39381E39.5A14B897@asme.org>

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"Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote:
> 
> 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.

I can't see how it would help fortran, but I haven't looked into f90
much yet.  I guess that means I'm falling behind.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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