[coldfire-gnu-discuss] GDB with Diab 4.3

[Wayne]

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Wayne wrote:
>
>   
>> If I remember correctly Diab uses the Dwarf 2 standard and the Coldfire
>> Gdb now uses Dwarf 3. Is there are way to use the current version of Gdb
>> with binaries containing older version of the Dwarf format (either 1 or
>> 2)? Is ther some sort of utility available to convert the debug
>> information?
>>     
>
> GDB can read DWARF 2 binaries just fine.  However, DWARF 2 isn't as
> standardized as you might think; different compilers tend to have
> different views of what the standard says in some respects.  So, how
> well it will work is a bit of an open question.
>
>   
Yes, I was reading about ELF and seems to confirm what I was reading. 
The thing is that when I first starting trying to get gdb to work it 
seemed to read our binaries fine but was having support issues with the 
5474. A short time later Code Sourcery released a version that worked 
with the 5474 but it no longer recognized the debug information in our 
binaries. I guess I will try the latest version. Maybe the dwarf problem 
was a bug in the release I tried..

Thanks,

Wayne

Wayne