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Re: [PATCH] Fix lost locus issues at -O0 -g (PRs debug/29609, debug/36690, debug/37616)
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> wrote:
>> While backporting the patch to 4.3-RH, I've discovered one case where I
>> haven't handled the goto_locus(location_t)+goto_block -> goto_locus(int
>> locator) translation, which on the trunk didn't trigger on any of the
>> testcases, but could, and on 4.3 branch it did.
>
> Slightly off topic, but what about backporting the patch to the official 4.3
> branch as well? The PRs are marked as regressions for it and IMHO they are
> serious as far as debuggability is concerned. We (AdaCore) are seeing them
> in our 4.3 compiler so we'll need to do something too. Rather than having
> each distributor backport the patch internally, why not do it officially?
FYI I think this would be a good idea.
Thanks,
Richard.
> [AdaCore uses the official 4.3 branch as its codebase so it gets tested, at
> least for Ada, on a bunch of architectures, both compiler and debugger.]
>
> --
> Eric Botcazou
>