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> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:46:17 -0700
> From: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
>
> I have run with gcc 4.2.0, 4.2.4, and gcc 4.3.2 releases (well, F10 
> w/4.3.2), and I was finally able to reproduce the failures you mention 
> with -gstabs+ (on the 4.2.x compilers). After digging into this for 
> quite some time, I am convinced this happens not because of my patch, 
> but because stabs is just really broken in gdb.

Well, stabs seems to work reasonable well for plain C on 32-bit
platforms.  But I think we basically gave up on stabs for C++ many
years ago already.  That's one of the reasons why basically all Open
Source Unix-like OSes switched to DWARF.