Re: [patch] use correct column info for function definitions

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>]

Hi -

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:12:11PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > By the way, in systemtap land we've been finding that the location
> > list data emitted at the pc entry address tends to be good enough that
> > we don't bother look for fuzzy prologue-ends just to get at function
> > parameters.
> 
> With what compilers/platforms?  I've never found this to be true yet.

It's been working well enough for us on linux w/ gcc 4.1+ on a variety
of architectures.  Does gdb have a flag to try it?

GDB may have valid reasons to try to skip past prologues anyway, such
as to skip the initialization of locals

- FChE