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Re: 3.3 PATCH: Handle mips gas 2.13 -mdebug switch

From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
Cc: echristo at potter dot sfbay dot redhat dot com, Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 21 Jul 2002 14:26:13 -0700
Subject: Re: 3.3 PATCH: Handle mips gas 2.13 -mdebug switch
References: <20020719220256.GA31859@nevyn.them.org><Pine.LNX.4.44.0207201540410.8358-100000@potter.sfbay.redhat.com> <20020721025548.GA9391@nevyn.them.org>

> I don't see why you should default any ELF target to -mdebug; I think
> that only COFF targets and people with very particular needs should be
> doing this.  This could depend on what SGI's debuggers like, I
> suppose...

IRIX 6 uses dwarf2, but the idea was mainly for backwards compatability.
Though, I don't suppose it matters in the long run as we move to dwarf2.
Anyone else have any thoughts?

-eric

-- 
I will not grease the monkey bars

References:
- Re: 3.3 PATCH: Handle mips gas 2.13 -mdebug switch
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: 3.3 PATCH: Handle mips gas 2.13 -mdebug switch
  - From: echristo
- Re: 3.3 PATCH: Handle mips gas 2.13 -mdebug switch
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz

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