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From: sumanth <sumanth.gundapneni@redpinesignals.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gcc - gdb compatibility issue
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F55082.3020107@redpinesignals.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090427062828.GM32765@adacore.com>

Joel ... Is there a way that i can avoid location lists generated by my 
compiler
and i am using DWARF 2

Thanks to joel and paul
sumanth
Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>> I am using gcc-4.3.3 and gdb 5.3 version.
>>>       
>> That's a rather new GCC and rather old GDB.
>>     
>
> One of the major problems of debugging GCC 4.3 code with such an old
> GDB is that GDB 5.3 doesn't handle location lists (assuming that
> the debugging info is DWARF). That may be your problem.
>
> Paul provided a lot of very good advice.  If that doesn't work, you
> might want to try the current CVS HEAD or our latest release, which
> is 6.8. I'm seeing a lot of hard work being done by several contributors
> towards 7.0 as well which hopefully we'll release before June this year.
>
>   



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-27  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-27  6:03 sumanth
2009-04-27  6:30 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-04-27  6:32   ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-27  6:42     ` sumanth [this message]
2009-04-27  6:55       ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-27 13:19         ` sumanth
2009-04-28  4:41         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-28  6:22           ` sumanth
2009-04-27  6:36   ` sumanth

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