From:	invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty)
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Subject:	Re: Strange behavior of compiler.
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:19:06 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> sat on a tribble, which squeaked:

>
>On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Graaagh the Mighty wrote:
>
>> >stabs debugging is better because the compiler generates much more 
>> >detailed info, including more detailed line number information and other 
>> >important data.
>> 
>> And the not available/broken bit?
>
>It's not broken more than it is on Unix.  There are known limitations 
>with stabs, but they are inherent to its design, not specific to DJGPP.  
>And the COFF debug limitations are much more grave.

Yeah, that was it, there was some reason this wouldn't work right
until you switched to the elf format, which you hadn't yet. And
presumably still haven't, since it was so desirable it'd be headline
news if you had.
-- 
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"There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of." -- 1980
"This antitrust thing will blow over." -- 1998
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