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From: Sebastian F. <seb...@gm...> - 2013-06-12 11:10:17
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Julian Seward <js...@ac...> wrote: > > Does anybody still use either of these debuginfo formats? Is it > going to be a big deal if support for them is dropped? Yes, stabs support is still needed: 1. Not all compilers support DWARF 2. A lot of tools like IBM's Purify do stabs well but DWARF support sucks. To use both tools on a project we'd have to do two builds instead of one if there's no stabs support anymore. 3. A lot of commercial applications and libraries, even those for Linux, are using stabs. Don't ask me for the reason, they just do it. Would the stabs-less valgrind still be able to work if one or more shared libraries has stabs instead of DWARF? |