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Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:30:58 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: gcc-3.X and GDB
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:

> Reproduced it under Linux:
> 	- stripped debug information fromn one my static object library
> 	- linked one executable (more that one C++ source file) with
> 	  this library
> 	- command 'where' showed wrong locations in main.cc for
> 	  procedures in stripped library
> 
> It doesn't seem to happen with shared libraries though, but they are usualy
> built with debug info.
> 
> Perhaps I should prepare some nice test example to be sent to GDB
> mailing list. 

Yes, that would probably allow the maintainers to identify the bug much 
faster.

> Anyway I think it could also be some problem in linker at time of merging
> debug info from fultiple source files. 

If so, perhaps "objdump --debugging" will show enough information to find 
the reason for GDB's misbehavior.

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