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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com, s257m AT unb DOT ca
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:06:37 +0000
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Subject: Re: RHIDE Can't debug this.
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Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com> wrote:

> Endlisnis wrote:
> > While were
> > on this topic, if "-gstabs+" is so much better, than why isn't it used by
> > default by RHIDE?
> 
> Probably because `symify' and the tiny debuggers don't understand stabs
> at present.  

True, you'll need gsymify or RHIDE to analize an stack trace from a C++ 
program.

> So stabs could get in your way if your program crashes. 
> (The traceback in conjunction with the `addr2line' tool could help,
> though.)


Additionally RHIDE uses -g alone because:

1) gcc 2.7.2.x for djgpp doesn't support stabs.
2) -gX generates much bigger exes.

I use -gstabs3, no -gstabs+ because the difference in size is important.

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