[fpc-devel] x86_64 stabs info - patch (sort of)

[Pierre Free Pascal]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : fpc-devel-bounces at lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-devel-
> bounces at lists.freepascal.org] De la part de Jonas Maebe
> Envoyé : Tuesday, October 12, 2010 11:56 AM
> À : FPC developers' list
> Objet : Re: [fpc-devel] x86_64 stabs info - patch (sort of)
> 
> 
> On 12 Oct 2010, at 11:49, Pierre Free Pascal wrote:
> 
> >> -----Message d'origine-----
> >> De : fpc-devel-bounces at lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-devel-
> >> bounces at lists.freepascal.org] De la part de Jonas Maebe
> >> Envoyé : Tuesday, October 12, 2010 10:00 AM
> >> À : FPC developers' list
> >> Objet : Re: [fpc-devel] x86_64 stabs info - patch (sort of)
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12 Oct 2010, at 09:25, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> >>
> >>> Afaik, stabs does not support x86-64 that's why it's probably never
> >>> fixed/noticed.
> >>
> >> The problem is that for some reason, it's nevertheless the default
> >> for
> >> Win64.
> >
> >  It currently is because dwarf debug information generation
> > for x86_64 is still much more buggy than stabs generation.
> 
> Is it? I use it all the time on Mac OS X/x86-64 and Linux/x86-64, and
> it works fine.

  It might be specific to win64, especially the internal linker.
I only tested win64 target, the others might be OK.
  Note that a recent fix by Willibald Krenn might have improved 
things a lot, but I didn't have much time to check it out yet.


Pierre