Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:16:51 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:20:05 GMT
> >
> >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.

You are mixing object format with debug info format.  ELF is an object
file format.  The best format for debug info currently known to
humankind is DWARF2, and that's where DJGPP is heading: COFF object
format with DWARF2 debug info.