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Subject: Re: 20.2b2 on irix 6.2/n32 ok 
In-Reply-To: Your message of 25 Apr 1997 11:36:43 +0900 
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:35:41 -0700
From: "Lonhyn T. Jasinskyj" <lonhyn@nas.nasa.gov>


I would vote to stay with -o32...

One of the problems is that gdb does not yet support the -n32 (DWARF)
symbol tables. Thus if you want to debug using gdb that would be a
problem. I would vote for the default for at least a few more months.
I have heard rumors of an unreleased gdb that has partial or full
support for DWARF but I'm not sure of what the status is and how
accurate this is.

However, on the bigger SGIs and pseudo-Crays they are already using
symbol tables that are unreadable by gdb so simply not using -n32 does
not really solve the gdb problem.

lonhyn

