Re: amd64 executable debugging

[vijay nag <vijunag@gmail.com>]

I mean the executable was built with -O2. The question is has GDB somehow
managed to fix this problem on optimized binaries ?

--Vijay--

On Mar 25, 2018 11:32 AM, "vijay nag" <vijunag@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I did. I was trying to postmortem a field crash on an optimized
> binary.
>
> [Kindly excuse my typos in my previous and read revenue as avenue. ]
>
> On Mar 24, 2018 10:33 PM, "Simon Marchi" <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-03-24 09:14, vijay nag wrote:
>>
>>> Hello GDB,
>>>
>>> Most often while debugging amd64 executable, GDB throws '<variable
>>> optimized out>' error and also sometimes when function parameters are
>>> passed on register GDB reports incorrect information in few frames. I'm
>>> sure in 64 bit with more registers available, there is more revenue for
>>> optimization, it is entirely possible that GDB gets confused due to that
>>> and information provided by GDB isn't reliable sometimes.  I'm wondering
>>> if
>>> the latest GDB has somehow solved this problem Or disassembling and
>>> studying instructions is the only way to go about it ? Also, is there a
>>> way
>>> to increase this debug-ability by adding any additional compiler flags ?
>>>
>>> --Vijay--
>>>
>>
>> Hi Vijay,
>>
>> You didn't mention it so I'll state the obvious, do you build without
>> optimizations (-O0)?  Otherwise, it's expected to have some optimized out
>> values.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>