Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/06/05/16:54:20
Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com> wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to post.
>
> The recent messages on file formats (COFF, ELF), sparked my
> memory about an issue I wanted to bring up. Namely, the 0xFFFF
> limit of source lines in the COFF debug format DJGPP uses.
>
> I was just curious if anybody had investigated using a more advanced
> debugging file format (STABS perhaps),
Robert Hoehne did that, you can find the diffs to generate it in my Web pages.
> and what the time estimates would be.
> My assumptions were, that at a minimum it would involve reconfiguring
> and compiling the whole of binutils (namely as and ld),
Touching the compiler is enough, strip must be corrected too (not yet).
> as well as
> gdb,
Not needed.
> and also possible the c compiler itself. This is, of course,
> if the configuration is supported even. If not, then much more
> work would be required. Things I wasn't sure about was if it was
> possible to create one set of exes that would work with existing stuff
> as well as supporting the advanced format as well.
Applying the patch the compiler generated works like before but supports
-gstabs
> Also, I wanted to test out pgcc with the latest version of the loader
> from binutils 2.8.1. I got everything built OK, but I noticed that
> while ld can read in coff-go32 tagged object files, it will not output
> them. A little perusing showed that I needed to set output format
> to be coff-i386 and everything works fine. Sound like something
> I configured wrong or perhaps just a nuisance in binutils?
Talk with Robert he is porting binutils.
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