Re: gcc - gdb compatibility issue

[sumanth <sumanth.gundapneni@redpinesignals.com>]

Joel , if you don't mind
can you brief me on this
"

I suspect upgrading the debugger is going to be a lot easier than
hacking the compiler.  That being said, location lists are not
necessarily the actual cause of your specific issue. It would be
hard to tell without debugging the debugger itself.

"

Thanks in advance ,
Sumanth G
Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Joel ... Is there a way that i can avoid location lists generated by
>> my  compiler and i am using DWARF 2
>>     
>
> Not as far as I know. When we discovered that GDB 5.3 wasn't handling
> them very well (if at all, actually, I can't remember the symptoms
> anymore), we found that the fastest change until we could switch
> to a more recent debugger was to hack the compiler to avoid their
> generation. Olivier Hainque made the change, it was relatively
> localized.
>
> I suspect upgrading the debugger is going to be a lot easier than
> hacking the compiler.  That being said, location lists are not
> necessarily the actual cause of your specific issue. It would be
> hard to tell without debugging the debugger itself.
>
>