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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Cc: jreiver@free.fr, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: how to examine data with compiler optimization option set?
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080902215623.GA3779@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48BDB4E2.9010301@adacore.com>

The documentation is slightly outdated, as stabs has hardly any support
for debugging optimized code.  Better stick with DWARF2/3.

> >Isn't that possible at all? (I am currently evaluating the debugging 
> >facilities
> >of gdb)
> 
> No it is not possible.

Note that the debugger behavior is usually expected considering
the debugging information generated by the compiler. I heard there
is some effort to improve the debugging information, but generally
speaking, debugging optimized code right now can be tricky.

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-02 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-02 21:27 J R
2008-09-02 21:36 ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-02 21:45   ` jreiver
2008-09-02 21:50     ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-02 21:57       ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2008-09-03  0:05         ` Michael Snyder
2008-09-03  1:53           ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-03  2:52             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-03 14:35               ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-03  3:06           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-09-03  4:37             ` Michael Snyder
2008-09-03 14:36             ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-03 18:34             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 21:43               ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-04  8:01                 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-09-04 10:53                   ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-04 14:05                     ` Paul Koning
2008-09-04 14:09                       ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-04 14:15                         ` Paul Koning
2008-09-04 14:17                           ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-04 15:55                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-04 18:13                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-09-04 20:46                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-03  0:04     ` Michael Snyder

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