From: Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: Paolo Molaro <lupus@ximian.com>, <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: large line number debugging support
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 12:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112151551290.3272-100000@www.cgsoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C1BA64C.1060104@cygnus.com>
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > 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.
DWARF2 can do line numbers as large as you like, the opcodes take leb128
or sleb128, as opposed to some fixed size encoding.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-15 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-21 12:33 Paolo Molaro
2001-11-28 10:41 ` Paolo Molaro
2001-12-15 11:36 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-12-15 12:56 ` Daniel Berlin [this message]
2001-12-19 7:21 ` Paolo Molaro
2001-12-19 7:26 ` Joel Brobecker
2001-12-19 11:38 ` Daniel Berlin
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