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Re: [PATCH/RFA] Don't apply line-number tweaks for non-GCC compilers
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 20 Sep 2004 16:44:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFA] Don't apply line-number tweaks for non-GCC compilers
- References: <200408141503.i7EF38O5004624@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org>
Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl> writes:
> The line-number tweaks we do for the sake of GCC 2.95.3 mess up the
> line number info for non-GCC compilers that emit stabs. In particular
> this makes it annoying to debug code using the Sun compilers on SPARC.
> This patch attempts to fix that. Please refer to the comment in the
> code for details.
>
> I deliberately did not remove the while line-number hack. In the end
> that's what we should really do, but I still do most of my GDB work on
> systems that have GCC 2.95.3 as their default compiler, and I really
> like being able to run the testsuite on those platforms.
>
> OK?
(Thanks for finding this, Andrew.)
Is there any reason you're not testing processing_gcc_compilation,
instead of checking the last N_FUN's desc?