Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 13:58:17 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: BUG in gcc ?
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On Thu, 14 May 1998, Andrew Crabtree wrote:

> I am thinking I will switch pgcc over to default -gstabs now.  My only
> concern is that fsdb doesn't support stabs.  Don't know how many people
> (besides myself) still use that though.

I use FSDB sometimes, especially when I need to find bugs with
overwriting memory.  There's nothing like FSDB's data-write
breakpoints to hunt these down (GDB's watchpoints don't work for me,
at least in 4.16--has anybody got them to work yet?).  I just used FSDB 
again this weekend to find some particulary nasty bug in info.exe.

FSDB also has some unique features for debugging FP code and assembly
programs.

That said, you can always use -gcoff to get the old case.