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From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
To: drow@mvista.com, fnf@ninemoons.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - Accept optional printed address at function breakpoints
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 16:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031208165233.555934B412@berman.michael-chastain.com> (raw)

drow> This is a debug info bug.  Your patch is not correct; when you say
drow> "break LINE" or "break FUNCTION" and there is debug info, it's GDB's
drow> established behavior to stop at the beginning of a line.  By not
drow> allowing the address we verify that GDB is stopping at the beginning of
drow> a line as expected.

That's right.  It's a subtle way of testing that the line number
information is correct.  If gdb prints a machine address in addition
to a line number, then either gcc has a bug in debug info output,
or gdb has a bug in debug info input.

Michael C


             reply	other threads:[~2003-12-08 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-08 16:53 Michael Elizabeth Chastain [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-08 18:02 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-12-08 16:25 Fred Fish
2003-12-08 16:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-08 17:51   ` Fred Fish
2003-12-09  4:39 ` Fred Fish

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