Change to Dwarf-2 debug info.

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Fri Jun 30 14:12:00 GMT 2006


On 30 June 2006 08:45, Danny Smith wrote:

> Hello

  AUGH!  Ow, you startled me!

> I thought it was about time to change the default debug info for cygwin
> and mingw from stabs to dwarf2.
> Currently the default of stabs can be overriden by '-ggdb' (==use the
> best format for gdb)
> 
> Apple has done just such a change in gcc 4.2.
> 
> GCC 4.3 stage 1 seems like a good time to change the default for mingw32
> and cygwin.
> 
> Comments?

  There's bound to be a bit of pain but what the hey, it'll be soooo worth it
in the long run.

> Back to my room.

  And no supper for you until you've tidied it up, young man!  

    cheers,
      DaveK
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