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

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From: Hamish Macdonald
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:44

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>>>>> In article <FRANL.93Jan27115049@draco.centerline.com>
>>>>> franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:

Fran> Which is it: Do gcc and gdb understand HP debug info or don't
Fran> they?

>>>>> On 27 Jan 93 13:01:21,
>>>>> In message <FRIEDMAN.93Jan27130121@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
>>>>> friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) wrote:

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

Does this hp-pa port of gcc/gas use the stock HP linker; i.e. shared
libraries are supported by this system?

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From: Hamish.Macdonald@bnr.ca (Hamish Macdonald)
Subject: Re: HP debug info and the FSF (was: Attaching gdb to a running process on an HP)
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