On May 12, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

> No, the version of GDB we have right now is fine with DWARF2 debug
> information. It's easy to test; just build something with
> '-gdwarf-2'. We used DWARF2 debug info on i386 for quite a while
> before we decided to switch to stabs to avoid the (IMO very minor)
> debug-info generation bug. We're using DWARF2 debug information
> already on alpha, arm, mips, powerpc, and sparc{64}.

Ok, well that's good news.  We should switch x86 targets back to  
DWARF2 iff GCC4, then, definitely.

> (that said, I expect to get gdb 6.4 in the tree this weekend).

Also good news!

-- thorpej