[RFC] improving the DWARF information emitted for Ada

2006-02-09 Thread Nicolas Setton
Hello, We would like to improve the readability and usability of the DWARF debug information emitted for Ada programs. Right now, this information contains a lot of GNAT-specific "encodings", which were created to fill in the deficiencies of the stabs and DWARF-2 debugging formats when it

Re: [RFC] improving the DWARF information emitted for Ada

2006-02-10 Thread Nicolas Setton
Any properly written dwarf reader will ignore attributes it doesn't understand, and hence in theory there should be no need for a - gdwarf-2+ option. You can just emit the new info by default and everything should work. The problem is that the switch will also change what is contained in