Debugging on SVR4 systems
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   "How do I get debugging to work on my System V Release 4 system?"

   Most systems based on System V Release 4 (except Solaris) encode
symbolic debugging information in a format known as `DWARF'.

   Although the GNU C compiler already knows how to write out symbolic
debugging information in the DWARF format, the GNU C++ compiler does
not yet have this feature, nor is it likely to in the immediate future.

   Ron Guilmette has done a great deal of work to try to get the GNU
C++ compiler to produce DWARF format symbolic debugging information
(for C++ code) but he gave up on the project because of a lack of
funding and/or interest from the g++ user community.  If you have a
strong desire to see this project completed, contact Ron at
<rfg@netcom.com>.

   In the meantime, you *can* get g++ debugging under SVR4 systems by
configuring gcc with the `--with-stabs' option.  This causes gcc to use
an alternate debugging format, one more like that used under SunOS4.
You won't need to do anything special to GDB; it will always understand
the "stabs" format.