From: Christopher Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
Message-Id: <97Oct6.093535gmt+0100.11649@internet01.amc.de>
Subject: Re: Bad debugging code for class functions in header
To: eldredge AT ap DOT net (Nate Eldredge)
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:40:14 +0100
Cc: crough45 AT amc DOT de, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <199710042024.NAA27095@adit.ap.net> from "Nate Eldredge" at Oct 4, 97 09:24:30 pm
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Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> These are known limitations of DJGPP's COFF debugging format. A patch is
> available to make GCC use `stabs' debugging instead, which lets you step
> through code from include files. To use long doubles (which are also in C),
> you need not only the stabs patch but also a small patch to GDB. Look at
> www.delorie.com for these, or I can email them if necessary.

Thanks.  I looked at the alternatives I tried it on, and Linux is using
elf/stabs and the DEC Alpha is using 'ecoff', which is presumably an
extended version of COFF.

I can't find reference to the patches on www.delorie.com - doing a search
on all the web pages tere for stabs resulted in only one reference, in
the FAQ, which says that Robert Hoehne did some work with it but not
where to get it.

I assume that I would need to recompile the compiler with the patches.  
Does no-one have already patched versions on an FTP or web site?  If not,
I'll get the sources, recompile and make it available on my web site (or
is there some objection to that?).

Chris C