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Re: preserving comments

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: Sharanbr <sharanb at hcl dot com>
Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:33:54 -0800
Subject: Re: preserving comments
References: <30296498.post@talk.nabble.com> <AANLkTik8ALEeG96E=xHJAz6NLG1RsrgOpG=ddFFZmTb3@mail.gmail.com> <30303927.post@talk.nabble.com>

Sharanbr <sharanb@hcl.com> writes:

> Thanks, Phil. I was thinking on the same lines after briefly going through
> the gcc manual.
> One more thing I thought might be useful is the debug info that gcc puts for
> tools like gdb.
> But I don't have enough knowledge on what exactly is the debug info
> available?
> If you are aware of it, please help me with some pointers ...

The debug info tells you thinks like variable names, types, and
locations, and a mapping from PC to source code location.  It doesn't
include source code comments.

Ian

References:
- preserving comments
  - From: Sharanbr
- Re: preserving comments
  - From: Philip Herron
- Re: preserving comments
  - From: Sharanbr

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