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Article #205Re: Please describe how to use g++/gdb with COFF
From: Robert Claeson
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1989 10:49
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1989 10:49
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In article <1989Oct27.195605.26334@paris.ics.uci.edu> Ron Guilmette <rfg@ics.uci.edu> writes:
>Due to the fixed fields and lack of expandability, the COFF debug
>stuff cannot even handle full ANSI-C (which requires up to 12-levels
>of "pointer-ness" for data types), let alone all of the "data type"
>information required to support C++ (e.g. "reference-ness").
I believe that AT&T has recognized that COFF isn't exactly the best object
file format and is switching over to some new format in Release 4.0 of
System V. The AT&T guy that I spoke to said that it will be a much more
useful format for things like C++.
--
Robert Claeson E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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