Re: HP debug info and the FSF (was: Attaching gdb to a running process on an HP)

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From: Noah Friedman
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:01

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In article <FRANL.93Jan27115049@draco.centerline.com> franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
>Which is it: Do gcc and gdb understand HP debug info or don't they?

They don't.  The port of GAS that Utah did for the hp-pa uses a
different symbol table format that gdb can understand (probably dbx
stabs, but I haven't actually checked).  But the assembler language is
different from the native HPUX one too, so when you build gcc you have
to either arrange always to use gas or never to (which means using the
native assembler).  If you use the native assembler, gdb won't be able
to debug the resulting executables.

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From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
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Subject: Re: HP debug info and the FSF (was: Attaching gdb to a running process on an HP)
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:01:21
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