From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] Work around buggy GCC 4.1 namespace dwarf info (GCC PR c++/28460)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100319125850.GA12263@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003191237.o2JCbBAr020607@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 01:37:11PM +0100, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Note that there is precendent for working around buggy GCC debug info
> generation in serious cases already ...
My position is that we should work around broken debug info in any
compiler that someone cares enough to submit a maintainable workaround
for. The goal of GDB is to help people debug, not to process DWARF.
>
> The following patch works around the problem for me.
> Tested on powerpc-linux, fixes (most) C++ test case failures.
>
> Any comments? Does anybody see a simpler way to work around the problem?
This looks pretty simple (and OK) to me.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-19 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-19 12:37 Ulrich Weigand
2010-03-19 12:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2010-03-19 19:20 ` [patch-testcase] " Jan Kratochvil
2010-03-19 20:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-20 1:30 ` Tom Tromey
2010-03-21 19:42 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-03-22 13:23 ` Ulrich Weigand
2010-03-22 16:55 ` Jan Kratochvil
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