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From: vasta@apollo.HP.COM (John Vasta)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc,comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Changes for GAS and GDB to use stabs in COFF are available for ftp
Keywords: gnu,gas,gdb,coff
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Date: 16 Jul 90 19:40:00 GMT
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In article <1667@tuvie> mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) writes:
>In article <18276@ttidca.TTI.COM>, mb@ttidca.TTI.COM (Michael Bloom) writes:
>|> Changes to make gas and gdb work on the sun386i and on systems using
>|> vanilla COFF (using stab debug symbols with the native coff loader in
>|> either case) are now available for anonymous ftp at sequent.kent.edu
>
>I wonder if those changes can be used to get gcc to emit debugging 
>information on Apollos as well? I would really love to gcc and 
>g++ on apollos with debug information. I'm not familiar with 
>Apollo's variety of COFF, but maybe someone who is might be able to 
>judge how difficult such a port might be. 

I've been working on it; I have the gas changes incorporated and am
working on gdb now. This is very part-time, but I hope it won't take
too long. There is also a new release of gcc being tested, so I'll
probably wait for it to send anything new out.
John Vasta                Hewlett-Packard Apollo Systems Division
vasta@apollo.hp.com       M.S. CHA-01-LT
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