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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:15:00 -0000
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Erik Niessen <erik.niessen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: inconsistency in printing out the value of an unsigned short 	in gdb
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:41:37PM +0200, Erik Niessen wrote:
> I ran the readelf -wi on my executable. The output file is attached.
> Looking at this debug info all the 3 variables are of type short
> unsigned int 2 byte size.
> So it looks that the debug info generated by the compiler is correct?

That's not the issue.  You need to look at where the .debug_info
section says the variables live (DW_AT_location), and compare it
to what the assembly code is putting there.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery