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Article #50195What object format works best for debugging?
From: Don Erway
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 17:50
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 17:50
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I have built a cross-compiler and debugger for an embedded system. There is no guidance in any of the documentation suggesting what object format works best for debugging. Is there any difference? Is it better to use xcoff or a.out/stabs or what? I can use anything, since I also write download utilities, etc. While on the subject, I am a bit baffled by the GNU approach to cross development tools. I believe that the vast majority of people that build cross compilers do so for embedded systems of one sort or another. After all, who really wants to go to the trouble of cross compiling to a system that can support it's own compiler? I feel strongly that the tool chain should support target processors, with "optimal", (for gcc), or at least un-arbitrarily-constrained-by-backwards-compatibility, configurations. Thanks, -Don
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11318c,a46156a3d26949e1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11318c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-10-12 11:39:53 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ndc.com!derway From: derway@ndc.com (Don Erway) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help Subject: What object format works best for debugging? Date: 12 Oct 1993 13:50:35 -0400 Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 20 Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Message-ID: <9310121747.AA23306@ndc.com>