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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:20:10 -0300
From: salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Debugging difficulties with GCC 2.95.2
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > I had noticed that there was
> > a discrepency in the way line-number based debug information was handled
> > by the BFD library, between COFF and .stabs symbols.
>
> This doesn't seem to be related to COFF vs stabs, since compiling with
> -gstabsN has the same problem for all levels of N up to 3; only -gstabs+
> somehow manages to convince the debugger that there are some source
> lines in dfunc.  I don't know enough about stabs to see something
> interesting in comparison of the output of -gstabs3 and -gstabs+.

BTW, I see a lot of crazy things using gdb 4.18 (from RHIDE) and gcc 2.95.1,
like functions where the first steped line is at the end (small ones) so after
steping a little more you go back! and then revisit the line! and was using
-gstabs+3, so something is really broken.

SET

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