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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: New Ada failure
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070104231457.GA1679@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459D8940.3030908@adacore.com>

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:09:52PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> >I think the problem is that you're using
> >lookup_symbol; isn't lookup_minimal_symbol sufficient?
> 
> Wouldn't really help, since once we break on this routine,
> we look at its arguments and local variables, so we really
> need full debug information for this routine. At least
> that's my understanding.

I see.  In that case, I think the best thing to do would be to mark the
test as unsupported in this configuration and return (and maybe mention
this in the manual).

If we only need its arguments, then a minimal symbol is sufficient.  If
we need named local variables, though, we're stuck.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-04 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-04 20:24 Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-04 23:09 ` Robert Dewar
2007-01-04 23:15   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-01-04 23:22   ` Mark Kettenis
2007-01-04 23:26     ` Robert Dewar
2007-01-04 23:27       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-05  3:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-01-05  3:59   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-05  4:06     ` Joel Brobecker
2007-01-05 15:31     ` Joel Brobecker
2007-01-05 15:42       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-05 16:03         ` Joel Brobecker

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