From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: jimb@red-bean.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] Deal with -g1 generated DWARF2 debug info
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512042230.jB4MUmMw002961@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0512041400x257a1889u8fb53eb23e62ce49@mail.gmail.com> (message from Jim Blandy on Sun, 4 Dec 2005 14:00:21 -0800)
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 14:00:21 -0800
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
>
> The central issue here is that the compiler is emitting incorrect
> debug info. The GCC manual says of -g1:
>
> Level 1 produces minimal information, enough for making backtraces
> in parts of the program that you don't plan to debug. This
> includes descriptions of functions and external variables, but no
> information about local variables and no line numbers.
>
> Nothing there about reducing all return types to 'void'.
But fixing that would probably require that GCC dumps the complete
type info, which would reduce the usefulness of -g1. And that doesn't
change the fact that GCC probably has been doing this for quite some
time now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-04 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-04 22:05 Mark Kettenis
2005-12-04 22:31 ` Jim Blandy
2005-12-05 9:43 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-12-04 22:40 ` Jim Blandy
2005-12-04 23:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-04 23:07 ` Jim Blandy
2005-12-05 10:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-05 18:29 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-12-05 19:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-07 16:19 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-12-05 16:56 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2005-12-05 19:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-05 14:40 ` Mark Kettenis
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