Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com> writes: > "H . J . Lu" wrote: >> >> What is the better debug format for Linux/mips in the terms of gdb >> and binutils, stabs or ecoff? I know the future is dwarf2. But I need >> something stable now. Since Linux/x86 uses stabs, I lean toward to >> stabs. Any comments? > > Go with stabs and ELF. Neither ecoff's base file format nor the debug > info were particularly well-documented (I remember some of the bits in > GNU being figured out by reverse engineering!), perpetuating it will > just make your life more difficult in the long run. It will also be > easier to move to dwarf2 when the opportunity arises. mdebugread is also an evil piece of code. It duplicates almost all of buildsym. I've had to perform *major* surgery (and am still not done yet) to do the block hash table thing. > > Stan -- "I looked out my apartment window, and I saw a bird wearing sneakers and a button saying, "I ain't flying no where." I said, "What's your problem buddy?" He said, "I'm sick of this stuff -- winter here, summer there, winter here, summer there. I don't know who thought this stuff up, but it certainly wasn't a bird." I said, "Well, I was just making breakfast, come on in. Want some eggs? Sorry." "-Steven Wright
