gdb and .debug_frame section

[Walter Bright]

John Demme wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Marcus R. Brown wrote:
>>> DWARF home: http://dwarf.freestandards.org/Home.php
>>> DWARF2 spec: ftp://ftp.freestandards.org/pub/dwarf/dwarf-2.0.0.pdf
>>>
>>> Walter Bright <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>>> Anyone know anything about the gdb internals with respect to
>>>> .debug_frame?
>> I have the specs - the trouble is, gdb appears to show a correct
>> backtrace regardless of whether the .debug_frame section is emitted or
>> not. So what does gdb need it for?
> 
> When I was working on the GDB patch, I was on the a GDB mailing list.  I
> found the list to be very friendly and helpful.  I would recommend asking
> there if you're working on some DWARF output!
> 
> If you do join one of the lists, let me know and I'll hop on as well, since
> I'd like to further the D patch for GDB to support anything D needs it to.

I'll check out the mailing list. Thanks!