[fpc-devel] Status and ideas about debug info (stabs, dwarf / dwar3)

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 12/09/2011 09:13, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 
> You don't have to wait until it is published. Both gcc and gdb  
> supported provisional DWARF4 features before the standard was out.

And then standing the chance of it being reject - thus doing the
implementation in GCC and GDB all for nothing. But maybe that would just
be an extreme case.


> The point is simply to make sure that there is a fleshed out spec that  
> can be implemented,

So maybe one should start a wiki page regarding this, putting down some
ideas that others can review and contribute towards?  Building up
towards a specification we can later submit to the DWARF guys.


> b) there are plenty of other things to work on that I consider more  
> interesting (also known as "time")

Would the incentive of money make it more "interesting"? ;-)  See my
bounty I just posted to the mailing list.



Regards,
  - Graeme -

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