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To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFA] Don't apply line-number tweaks for non-GCC compilers
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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:46:00 -0000
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Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl> writes:
> The line-number tweaks we do for the sake of GCC 2.95.3 mess up the
> line number info for non-GCC compilers that emit stabs.  In particular
> this makes it annoying to debug code using the Sun compilers on SPARC.
> This patch attempts to fix that.  Please refer to the comment in the
> code for details.
> 
> I deliberately did not remove the while line-number hack.  In the end
> that's what we should really do, but I still do most of my GDB work on
> systems that have GCC 2.95.3 as their default compiler, and I really
> like being able to run the testsuite on those platforms.
> 
> OK?

(Thanks for finding this, Andrew.)

Is there any reason you're not testing processing_gcc_compilation,
instead of checking the last N_FUN's desc?