WorkShop won't work with non-SGI compilers?

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From: Przemek Klosowski
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 21:15

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Hi,

I tried to run SGI's WorkShop debugger on an executable that was
compiled with GNU CC compiler ('gcc -g'); I ran cvmain and chose
"switch executable...", giving it the name of a C program compiled and
linked with gcc. WorkShop crashes then, saying:

	Client I/O fault: Read failed: Broken pipe

I called SGI support and got an answer that their debugger only debugs
the output of their compiler. Indeed, the same C program compiled with
SGI cc can be debugged just fine (we want to use gcc primarily for its
C++ compiler).

Would Workshop and SGI cc use proprietary extensions to the executable
format?  Does anyone know if there is a patch or workaround to be used
with gcc?




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