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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++
Subject: Re: Please describe how to use g++/gdb with COFF
Message-ID: <1007@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 30 Oct 89 10:49:28 GMT
References: <8910260105.AA04801@ttidca.TTI.COM> <8910261603.AA05478@lurch.Stanford.EDU> <1989Oct27.195605.26334@paris.ics.uci.edu>
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In article <1989Oct27.195605.26334@paris.ics.uci.edu> Ron Guilmette <rfg@ics.uci.edu> writes:

>Due to the fixed fields and lack of expandability, the COFF debug
>stuff cannot even handle full ANSI-C (which requires up to 12-levels
>of "pointer-ness" for data types), let alone all of the "data type"
>information required to support C++ (e.g. "reference-ness").

I believe that AT&T has recognized that COFF isn't exactly the best object
file format and is switching over to some new format in Release 4.0 of
System V. The AT&T guy that I spoke to said that it will be a much more
useful format for things like C++.

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