From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BF4DDE02 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:31:53 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4948353cd5e9c566a8151eca8c4bbcb7@kernel.crashing.org> References: <4948353cd5e9c566a8151eca8c4bbcb7@kernel.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <0D968216-6743-498E-9723-F029FF3746C1@kernel.crashing.org> From: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: still using stabs debug format? Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:33:31 -0500 To: Segher Boessenkool Cc: "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org list" , Ed Swarthout List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Aug 17, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote: >> Is anyone really still using the stabs format for kernel debug? >> >> can we kill off the .stabs references? > > What, you want to replace them with dwarf markup? Or just > get rid of the debug info completely? There are two users today: * N_SO for file information we can easily make into .file * N_FUN used in _GLOBAL() that marks it a 'function' is a bit misleading since we use this for both functions and data. Not sure what to do about that one, any suggestions? - k