From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24988 invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2001 19:36:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24965 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2001 19:36:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (24.114.42.213) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2001 19:36:46 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B193D60; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 14:36:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C1BA64C.1060104@cygnus.com> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:36:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011207 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paolo Molaro Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: large line number debugging support References: <20011128194140.F22089@lettere.unipd.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00144.txt.bz2 > Hi. > I just added support to output stab information in the mono JIT > compiler: this debugging info is used to debug code generation problems > and as such the lines in the source code it references are from an > assembly dump of the CLR programs. For large libraries the assembly > files can be longer than 2^16 lines and the binary stabs format seems to use > 16 bits unsigned integers to store line info. > Is there some kind of know workaround for this problem? > Splitting the assembly dump would be extremely ugly. How does dwarf2 go with this? ``gas -gdwarf2'' will select dwarf2 assembler debug info. Andrew