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Re: Merging identical functions in GCC

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: Jed Davis <jdev at panix dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:49:47 -0700
Subject: Re: Merging identical functions in GCC
References: <E1GOLIP-0008Gh-TX@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <EB6C722D-AF9C-42DB-8086-A7C69E36B325@apple.com> <lcsk6404vdv.fsf@panix5.panix.com>

On Sep 18, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Jed Davis wrote:

As a convenient side-effect, setting breakpoints on only one variant
will also still work.

Well, not quite. For it to work nicely, you'd want the jmp version, and you'd want to defeat the gdb set breakpoint after prologue logic, and even then, only breakpoints at the start of the function would `work'.

References:
- Re: Merging identical functions in GCC
  - From: Ross Ridge
- Re: Merging identical functions in GCC
  - From: Mike Stump
- Re: Merging identical functions in GCC
  - From: Jed Davis

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