From: Michael Snyder <Michael.Snyder@palmsource.com>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Breaking on C labels?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1169839590.14604.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ac05obwi.fsf@codesourcery.com>
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:55 -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> Michael Snyder <Michael.Snyder@palmsource.com> writes:
> > There's a risk that some symbol-lookup function would then select that
> > label instead of the function entry label when you tried to look up the
> > nearest label preceeding a given address.
>
> This should be easy to avoid, shouldn't it? We would only recognize
> LOC_LABEL entries for breakpoints, and ignore them for lookups by
> address.
I'm not sure, it's too long since I looked at it.
Are you sure LOC_LABEL is the correct attribute?
Seems to me, that might be what is used by the compiler
for all those ".L123" labels that it uses for loop
control etc.
You don't want to get mixed up with those, because
there's a bazillion of them, and we want them to get
stripped out by the linker.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-26 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-25 19:48 Joel Brobecker
2007-01-25 21:19 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-26 0:05 ` Michael Snyder
2007-01-26 1:01 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-01-26 18:55 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-26 19:41 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2007-01-26 21:04 ` Jim Blandy
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