From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6870 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2004 16:42:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 6846 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2004 16:42:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2004 16:42:48 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A532B92; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:42:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <403B7F03.4050009@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:42:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [commit/java] Work around java/1565 in jmisc.exp References: <403B77DB.2010401@gnu.org> <20040224161514.GA17157@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20040224161514.GA17157@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00682.txt.bz2 > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:12:11AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > >>> Hello, >>> >>> This patch modifies jmisc.exp to work around the very very long standing >>> bug java/1565 (just that no one thought to report it?). I'll separatly >>> follow up with a testcase for just that bug. > > > FYI, about that bug: FYI: > GCC's debug info is screwy; FYI, http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6587 > we need to strip arguments and parentheses from DW_AT_name for language_java and then I > expect it will start working. FYI, a hack stripping that stuff didn't appear to make it work, and doesn't fix the underlying problem of corrupt debug info. As with Ada, Java needs a better symbol search method. What happened to that thread? I want to finish my current massacre of > dwarf2read before I go playing with that, though - it's always been on > a lower burner. Um, you appear to be spreading yourself very very thin here :-( Andrew