GCC, stabs, mangled names

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:

drow> FYI, my position on stabs has crystalized over time: I don't care, use
drow> DWARF-2.  Even on Solaris if you use the GNU tools I believe DWARF-2 is
drow> available as an option.

I just built gcc 3.2.2 on sparc-sun-solaris2.7 and stabs+ is the default
and dwarf-2 is available as an option.

The last time I checked (December 2002 with gcc 3.2.1), I found that
Cygwin has stabs+ but not dwarf-2.

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-12/msg00128.html

My opinion: gdb's goal should be that we have no regressions in stabs+
support, so that everything that worked in 5.3 continues to work in
5.4/6.0.  It's important that *almost every* user of gdb 5.3 has a good
experience if they upgrade, so that we don't get users that are stuck
on old versions of gdb.  After that, though, fixing existing stabs+
bugs is low priority to me.

Michael C