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What object format works best for debugging?

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From: Don Erway
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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