From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f57IgWx02874 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:42:32 -0700 Received: from mail-out2.apple.com (mail-out2.apple.com [17.254.0.51]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f57IgWh02869 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:42:32 -0700 Received: from apple.con (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05700 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:42:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by apple.con (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:40:49 +0100 Received: from apple.com (melos.apple.com [17.202.41.123]) by scv1.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04270; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:42:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B1FCAC9.2110A024@apple.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 11:41:13 -0700 From: Stan Shebs X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H . J . Lu" CC: GDB , binutils@lucon.org, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: stabs or ecoff for Linux/mips References: <20010607093149.B13198@lucon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk "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. Stan