From: pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ELF binaries (was Re: Function Sizes)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 03:23:49 GMT
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:
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>1) no more than 64K lines with debugging information in a program
>2) stock DJGPP gcc and gdb won't let you debug into code that
>    is not in the source file compiled, but instead in some included
>    file (C++ inlines, in particular), or 
>3) for a C file generated from some other source (by tools like bison,
>    flex or f2c, e.g.), gdb won't show the 'original' source, but
>    instead the .c file, but it uses the line numbers from the 
>    original source, messing things up completely.
>
>(BTW: 2) can be fixed by using stabs debugging info, and 3) by appying
>  another little patch to gcc from R.Hoehne, so only 1) is a *real*
>  problem)
>

For item (3), where can one obtain the source of this patch?  I
checked Robert's home page and SET's as well, and I don't remember
seeing a reference to that anywhere.  I already have the stabs diffs
from SET's page (to solve (2) above), and was about to start
rebuilding gcc with the patch, but I would certainly like to apply
both at the same time.  Is it peraps somewhere in DJ's mail archive?
If so, any idea what keywords would retrieve it?  Or when,
approximately, it appeared in the messages?

TIA for any info you can provide.

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)