[fpc-devel] dward debug info - someone promiced more compact debug info than stabs

[Jonas Maebe]

On 16 Mar 2010, at 15:58, Paul Ishenin wrote:

> Why dwarf information has so big debug files (comparing with stabs)  
> on windows?

Because Windows (just like Darwin) does not support referring to DWARF  
debug info from one object file to another, so a lot of debug  
information is duplicated in multiple units.


Jonas