From: Paul Gilliam <gilliam@us.ibm.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB using addr2line?
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 22:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OF799FC643.3C05B95B-ON87256E8D.007C6F16-88256E8D.007C891C@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3pt9fvqpv.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>
And don't forget ltrace and the like... they look a lot like a
special-purpose debugger on the inside.
gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com wrote on 05/07/2004 03:04:44 PM:
> Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > As anyone looked at (interested in) getting GDB and addr2line sharing
> > common linetable code? A libsal (source and line) say.
>
> BFD has long had bfd_find_nearest_line(). It was originally used by
> the linker to report error messages using the source code line--at the
> time, a great innovation. Ulrich Lauther built addr2line as a wrapper
> around bfd_find_nearest_line(). If you look at addr2line.c, you will
> see that it is very simple. gdb needs a much more serious approach to
> mapping between addresses and source code lines.
>
> That said, it would be perfectly reasonable for gdb and addr2line to
> share code, just as it would be perfectly reasonable for gdb and
> objdump/objcopy --debugging to share code. I don't think anybody has
> looked at either possibility.
>
> Ian
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-07 20:55 Andrew Cagney
2004-05-07 20:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-07 22:04 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-05-07 22:40 ` Paul Gilliam [this message]
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