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Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 18:24:51 +0300
From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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Subject: Used DWARF version for GCC-4.8.1
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Updated GCC-4.8.1 packages for DJGPP at

http://ap1.pp.fi/djgpp/gcc/index.html

to use DWARF2 by default (it means unless DWARF3/4 is explicitly required).
Some problems seems to:

I do not see:
Breakpoint 1, main () at 1.c:10
10        int a = 1;
(gdb) s
11        f(a);
(gdb)
f (i=<error reading variable: can't compute CFA for this frame>) at 1.c:5
5         printf("a=%d\n", i);
(gdb) p i
can't compute CFA for this frame
(gdb)

any more with it.

I simply tried to use xgcc.exe from GCC build directory for testing
whether debugging works. For example:

gdb --args xgcc.exe --help

1) Messages like 'error reading variable: can't compute CFA for this frame'
    does not appear any more as it was expected
2) Backtrace is often broken: gdb fails to display frame info

I should perhaps check more with cross-compiler as building
native compiler simply requires too much time

Andris