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In article <2imjp1$jce@hercules.neu.sgi.com> knobi@munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch) writes:

     I hope this is the right place to ask: what is the
   status of GAS, BINUTILS, GDB and GLIBC for SGI machines
   running IRIX-5 (ELF, ELF debugging, shared linking)? I
   got the question from a "customer" who insists on using
   the GNU tools.

Gcc does not generate object files directly, but rather generates
assembler code and uses an external assembler to generate .o files.  I
I understand that GAS is the only way for GCC to pass the
debugging info to the object files, since the SGI assembler does not
understand debugging records (SGI compilers generate .o files directly).


Jim Wilson (wilson@cygnus.com) at Cygnus mentioned that GAS (Gnu
assembler) is usable on Irix 5.1, but I don't think that gcc/gdb are
integrated with it yet. SGI is a moving target, because presently they
use sdb records in ELF .o files (new in 5.x), but they will move to
DWARF-in-ELF in the future releases. I don't understand it well enough
to fix it.

It would be great if your customer contracted with someone (Cygnus?)
to fix this situation; may I suggest that SGI itself works on this? 
As it is, under Irix 4.0.5, SGI's own visual debugger crashes when
reading (otherwise perfectly good) GCC-created executables. 
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