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RE: Verifying Debug Info.
- From: Alex Newman <newman70alex at yahoo dot com>
- To: rth at redhat dot com, erwiningris at yahoo dot com dot au
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 04:36:39 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: RE: Verifying Debug Info.
> -----Original Message-----
> > I am wondering how gcc tests the correctness of
the
> > debugging information that it emits.
>
> The gdb testsuite.
>
Yeah! But I'm not sure if testing can be automated?
I mean does there exist some tool that may run on the
(test suite) debugging binaries, generated by a
compiler, and statically check if debugging info
is "syntatically" correct. The tool should take the
binary as the input and check the structure of the
debugging symbols to be as per specs.
I think such a tool can make life of both compiler and
debbugger developer easier. Atleast the compiler
developer need not wait for the debbuger to be
developed for testing debugging data.
Thoughts?
Regards.
~an
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