Re: [RFA/stabs] Fix for line table problems (was: Re: [RFC] Gdb line table implementation tweak)

[Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>]

Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> > [This is long.  Feel free to skip to the patch at the very end, and
> > stop to take a gander at the testsuite numbers in the middle :)]
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:20:05PM -0700, Fred Fish wrote:
> >
> >> > Fred, could you look into these failures?
> >
> >> Yes, but I would need access to a host system that exhibits
> >> the failures.  Given a pointer and access to such a system,
> >> I can try and see what is going on.
> > I've got it.  It's almost exactly like the bug I fixed in binutils
> > addr2line a few hours ago.  We do not have an N_SLINE at the beginning
> > of the function.  Our starting lines for functions have, as a result,
> > always been a little odd...
> 
> Jim, would you be able to bump this one up a bit on your things to do
> list?  I believe it addresses the regressions MichaelC detected just
> prior to 5.2 being branched and is on the high priority list.

Yes, I've been sort of panicing this week, but I think this might be
valuable to the project I'm currenty panicing about.  I'll probably
get to it today.