From:	Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: gdb problem or just silly me - please help
Date:	Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:15:17 +0100
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The problem with using -gstabs+ by default is that SYMIFY doesn't
> support stabs, so -gstabs+ renders stack tracebacks unusable, unless
> you run the program inside GDB or RHIDE.
> 
> If and when someone teaches SYMIFY about stabs, DJGPP will probably
> switch to -gstabs+ as the default.

Eli, ISTR that you had a BFD version of symify that did work with stabs+
debugging. Maybe I am confused, but is this the case? I remember you sent
me bfdsymify when I had some weird debugging problems, which we never got
to the bottom of.

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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