From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
To: bje@air.net.au, Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org list" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Ed Swarthout <Ed.Swarthout@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: still using stabs debug format?
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:00:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <536DDC0F-E665-4C50-AB75-AE9DBDB8820D@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D968216-6743-498E-9723-F029FF3746C1@kernel.crashing.org>
Ben, Uli
Paul/BenH suggested that you might be able to help with my question.
> 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?
#define _GLOBAL(n) \
.text; \
.stabs __stringify(n:F-1),N_FUN,0,0,n;\
.globl n; \
n:
this is the .stabs reference I'm trying to figure out what the dwarf
equiv would be.
- k
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-12 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-17 13:17 still using stabs debug format? Kumar Gala
2007-08-18 0:54 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-18 16:33 ` Kumar Gala
2007-09-12 16:00 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
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