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Re: large line number debugging support
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- To: Paolo Molaro <lupus at ximian dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 14:36:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: large line number debugging support
- References: <20011128194140.F22089@lettere.unipd.it>
> Hi.
> I just added support to output stab information in the mono JIT
> compiler: this debugging info is used to debug code generation problems
> and as such the lines in the source code it references are from an
> assembly dump of the CLR programs. For large libraries the assembly
> files can be longer than 2^16 lines and the binary stabs format seems to use
> 16 bits unsigned integers to store line info.
> Is there some kind of know workaround for this problem?
> Splitting the assembly dump would be extremely ugly.
How does dwarf2 go with this? ``gas -gdwarf2'' will select dwarf2
assembler debug info.
Andrew