On 01/19/2016 11:31 PM, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
-@option{-gdwarf-2} does not accept a concatenated debug level, because
-GCC used to support an option @option{-gdwarf} that meant to generate
-debug information in version 1 of the DWARF format (which is very
-different from version 2), and it would have been too confusing. That
-debug format is long obsolete, but the option cannot be changed now.
I think we should retain some mention of DWARF 1 here, perhaps as an
explanation of why {version} starts at 2.
Ron Guilmette implemented the @command{protoize} and @command{unprotoize}
-tools, the support for Dwarf symbolic debugging information, and much of
+tools, the support for DWARF symbolic debugging information, and much of
the support for System V Release 4. He has also worked heavily on the
Let's clarify that rfg's implementation was of DWARF version 1.
Jason
