From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jun 3 11:25:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BDF37BFF0 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:25:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11665; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 12:25:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39394E63.A17E7D78@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:28:51 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plans to change our debugging format to DWARF2 References: <20000602112555.A85602@dragon.nuxi.com> <39381E39.5A14B897@asme.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message