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From: jim@tuliptree.org
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] question on stabs option being disabled with ia64
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:34:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709806142@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709806141@msgid-missing>

Stabs has fixed size 32-bit fields.  This makes it impossible to express
64-bit addresses unless you change the format, or do something tricky. 
If you change the format, you aren't really emitting stabs anymore.  All
tools would have to be modified to recognize the new format.  That is a
problem we don't really want to deal with.   DWARF2 doesn't have this problem,
and is a better long term choice for other reasons too.

Jim




  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-17 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-17 15:29 [Linux-ia64] question on stabs option being disabled with ia64 Andreas Schwab
2003-03-17 17:34 ` jim [this message]
2003-03-17 21:03 ` Robert K Gjertsen

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