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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Change to Dwarf-2  debug info.
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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.


Corinna

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