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Date:	Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:07:31 -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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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, salvador wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> This jumping back and forth, in and of itself, does not mean anything is
> broken. During the optimization steps, the compiler may reorder statements
> in a way that makes the debugger step back and forth in the source code.

I agree, but that is not the case! the code isn't ejecuted during the first "pass",
but in the second. And also: is not just another order, you get the impression the
code is ejecuted twice.

SET

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