[parisc-linux] unofficial gdb deb on ftp site

[parisc-linux] unofficial gdb deb on ftp site

[Randolph Chung]

there is an unofficial gdb debian package at

ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/unofficial-debs/gdb_5.2.cvs20020401-4.1_hppa.deb

this is basically the same as the Debian package, except it has a fix
for the '"core" is not a core dump: File format not recognized' bug.

A patch has been submitted to the Debian maintainer, but in the meantime
if you want you can use this package.

I see that Dave has changed hppa-gcc from using stabs to using dwarf2 in
gcc 3.2, so things might be quite different once we move to gcc 3.2...
but for now gdb is only marginally usable.  If anyone is interested in 
looking at gdb, we seem to have some problems with gdb tracking line 
info.  'next' doesn't work at all...

randolph

Re: [parisc-linux] unofficial gdb deb on ftp site

[John David Anglin]

> I see that Dave has changed hppa-gcc from using stabs to using dwarf2 in
> gcc 3.2, so things might be quite different once we move to gcc 3.2...

That wasn't me.  I believe it was Alan.  This is also the case for 3.1.
What I did was fix the generation of frame notes in the prologue so that
the dwarf2 EH code works.  this is mainly for C++.  I'm not sure whether
gdb uses this information although it could.  You can always use "-gstabs"
to get stabs debugging information.

Dave
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