Re: RFC: dbxout_type rewrite

2005-09-16 Thread Devang Patel
On Sep 16, 2005, at 3:23 AM, Geoffrey Keating wrote: Devang Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've now patch ready (based on apple-local-200502-branch) but it requires few bug fixes in darwin GDB. My simple question is : Is anybody interested in reviewing this GCC patch for acceptance in FSF

Re: RFC: dbxout_type rewrite

2005-09-16 Thread Geoffrey Keating
Devang Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've now patch ready (based on apple-local-200502-branch) but it > requires few bug fixes in darwin GDB. My simple question is : Is > anybody interested in reviewing this GCC patch for acceptance in FSF > GCC (4.1 or 4.2 or whenever) irrespective of wheth

Re: RFC: dbxout_type rewrite

2005-09-15 Thread Eric Christopher
The only issue I can see is that someone who uses an older versions of Mac OS X but don't have access to the newer GDB because building Apple's version of GDB is a little harder than building than gcc. If you provide a gdb version which is runnable on All of Mac OS X, this becomes a littl

Re: RFC: dbxout_type rewrite

2005-09-15 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Sep 15, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Devang Patel wrote: I've now patch ready (based on apple-local-200502-branch) but it requires few bug fixes in darwin GDB. My simple question is : Is anybody interested in reviewing this GCC patch for acceptance in FSF GCC (4.1 or 4.2 or whenever) irrespective of

RFC: dbxout_type rewrite

2005-09-15 Thread Devang Patel
GCC routinely puts on the fly type description in other stabs. For example, 006c - 00 0002 PSYM argv:p(0,2)=*(0,3)=*(0,4)=r(0,4);0;127; Now when this PSYM stab is discarded by linker the useful type info is lost. This happens a lot in -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols mode. It happ