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From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: -symbol-list-lines
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040216205557.GE3978@white> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040216204516.GC15919@nevyn.them.org>

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:45:16PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:40:35PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > I am seeing 2 potential problems,
> > 
> > Several lines come back as {pc="0x08048406",line="0"},
> > should the value "0" be documented? or is it a bug?
> > 
> > Also, for some reason, a value is repeated
> > {pc="0x0804849c",line="38"}. Is this ok?
> 
> I can't say anything about what is appropriate (or useful) for the MI
> interface but I can tell you what's going on.  This matches the
> structure of the internal line table precisely.
> 
> - line 0 means end-of-sequence.  I.E. PCs greater than 0x8048406 that
> don't have a new starting line do not belong to this line number table.

I personally can't see why this would be useful to front ends. Can
anyone else? If it isn't, I will submit a patch to not print this data.

> - duplicated line numbers are emitted by the compiler to mark, mostly,
> the ends of prologues.  Sometimes the prologue is zero-sized.

Would keeping a list internally of numbers that have been sent out
already be reasonable? or is it repeating the data unimportant?

I would also be willing to fix this.

Bob Rossi


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-16 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-16 20:40 -symbol-list-lines Bob Rossi
2004-02-16 20:45 ` -symbol-list-lines Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-16 20:56   ` Bob Rossi [this message]
2004-02-17  1:20     ` -symbol-list-lines Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-17  1:28       ` -symbol-list-lines Bob Rossi
2004-02-17  5:45         ` -symbol-list-lines Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-18 14:29           ` -symbol-list-lines Alain Magloire
2004-02-17  5:44       ` -symbol-list-lines Eli Zaretskii

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