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- From: Hamish.Macdonald@bnr.ca (Hamish Macdonald)
- Subject: Re: HP debug info and the FSF (was: Attaching gdb to a running process on an HP)
- In-Reply-To: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 27 Jan 93 13:01:21
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- <FRIEDMAN.93Jan27130121@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:44:02 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <FRANL.93Jan27115049@draco.centerline.com>
- >>>>> franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
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- Fran> Which is it: Do gcc and gdb understand HP debug info or don't
- Fran> they?
-
- >>>>> On 27 Jan 93 13:01:21,
- >>>>> In message <FRIEDMAN.93Jan27130121@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
- >>>>> friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) wrote:
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- Noah> They don't. The port of GAS that Utah did for the hp-pa uses a
- Noah> different symbol table format that gdb can understand (probably
- Noah> dbx stabs, but I haven't actually checked). But the assembler
- Noah> language is different from the native HPUX one too, so when you
- Noah> build gcc you have to either arrange always to use gas or never
- Noah> to (which means using the native assembler). If you use the
- Noah> native assembler, gdb won't be able to debug the resulting
- Noah> executables.
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- Does this hp-pa port of gcc/gas use the stock HP linker; i.e. shared
- libraries are supported by this system?
-