On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:44:08PM -0600, Eric Lowe wrote:

> >Then I did like this, it's no use either.
> >#gcc -D_KERNEL -c -g dummy.c
> >#ctfconvert -g -l LBL dummy.o
> >and I got the message???
> >ERROR:ctfconvert:GCC-generated stabs are unsupported. Use DWAF instead.
> >removing dummy.o
> 
> First you need -g to generate the stabs that ctfconvert needs; your second 
> attempt got that right, but as the error message says gcc stabs aren't 
> supported by ctfconvert yet. You need to use the Sun C compiler.

Or DWARF for GCC. Namely -gdwarf2. I'm not sure if his GCC is just too old to
produce DWARF by default, or what.

> Hopefully someone who knows more about the CTF roadmap can chime in on 
> whether there is an RFE to support gcc-style stabs and if so, when it's 
> likely to become supported.

AFAIK there's no plan to do this, since it's not really needed.

regards
john

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