On 25 Mar 2010, at 13:38, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
As far as I understand the preferred debug information format is DWARF
instead of STABS. This brings me to a few questions.
* Does DWARF info have all the features STABS had? If not, what does
STABS
have that DWARF doesn't?
In general, it's the other way around: more things are supported with
DWARF than with stabs (e.g. absolute variables, properties, private/
protected sections). Only a few things work with Stabs that don't work
(yet) with DWARF. The only thing I can think of right now that works
with Stabs but not with DWARF is var-parameters (as you mentioned in
your other mail): they are currently replaced by C++-style reference
parameters in DWARF (for both 32 and 64 bit). You can still get their
value by simply printing them (without dereferencing them), but when
looking at a stack frame they are shown as "&address" instead of the
value. This has to be solved in GDB.
I read somewhere that STABS supports property
getter methods where DWARF can't - is this true?
No.
Switching to STABS by recompiling all my code and trying to run it
via
Lazarus IDE, the IDE instantly crashed and couldn't even start my
application - so I couldn't test STABS and switched back to DWARF.
Stabs is defined as a 32 bit debugging format, so it's normal that it
doesn't work for 64 bit programs.
* What version of DWARF v2 (-gw2) or v3 (-gw3) is recommended?
v2.
Jonas
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