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Subject:	Re: Change to Dwarf-2 debug info.
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:50:39AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jun 30 19:45, Danny Smith wrote:
>> Hello
>> I thought it was about time to change the default debug info for cygwin
>> and mingw from stabs to dwarf2.
>> Currently the default of stabs can be overriden by '-ggdb' (==use the
>> best format for gdb)  
>> 
>> Apple has done just such a change in gcc 4.2.
>> 
>> GCC 4.3 stage 1 seems like a good time to change the default for mingw32
>> and cygwin.
>> 
>> Comments?
>
>Thumbs up from me.  The Cygwin build process is supposed to work
>with dwarf2 debug sections already.

Ditto for me.  I've wanted this for a long time.

cgf

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