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From: herbie@dec18.cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew Herbert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Another GCC 1.39 and Sys Vr4 problem.
Keywords: gcc, SysVr4
Message-ID: <herbie.672376362@dec18>
Date: 23 Apr 91 03:12:42 GMT
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In <1991Apr22.005126.425@swsrv1.cirr.com> toma@swsrv1.cirr.com (Tom Armistead) writes:

>I have gcc compiled just fine and it will produce executable files just fine,
>but if I use the -g command line option, I get an error from cc1 saying that
>'-g' is an invalid option - Here's an example of the error?

gcc 1.39 can't produce debugging information for R4's ELF object file format
(hope this isn't too tautological :), so the compiler -g option is disabled.
I assume Dell have modified gcc to produce symbol and line number info with
ELF - has anyone else done any work on this?

Andrew Herbert
herbie@dec18.cs.monash.edu.au