Re: [RFC]: patch 1 for Sun C compiled target programs

[Michael Mueller <m.mueller99@kay-mueller.de>]

Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:57:32 +0200
>    From: Michael Mueller <m.mueller99@kay-mueller.de>
> 
>    Setting a breakpoint on a function name or on the first line of a 
>    function doesn't work for Sun C compiled target programs (32 and 64 
>    bit). I verified this against these compiler versions:
> 
>       Sun C 5.5 2003/03/12
>       Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09
>       Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 2001/05/15
>       Sun WorkShop 6 2000/04/07 C 5.1
> 
> Ah yes.  I knew about this.  Just forgotten all about it.  The funny
> code you're seeing is there to work around a bug in GCC 2.95.  GDB
> fiddles a bit with the line number info trying to fix the breakage.
> It's completely bogus, and should go since it messes up real-world
> debugging with GCC 2.95 too.  Unfortunately doing so will mess up the
> testsuite results when using GCC 2.95 :-(.

Can you give me some pointer to a mail thread or something describing this?

> 
> I'll try to get this fixed before the 6.2 release.  Thanks for giving
> me a bit more ammunition for getting this change accepted by the rest
> of the crowd.

Sounds promising. I filed PR gdb/1682 to remind you guys :-)

> 
> Mark
>