Re: debugging optimized programs (Was: Re: Bootstrap failure of gcc-ss-20010409 in ia64)

[Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>]

Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cambridge.redhat.com> writes:

> > In the case of heavily intermingled code, the line number info may
> > look like (i've omitted is_stmt, basic_block, and other registers, for
> > simplicity):
> > 
> > Line advance            Address advance
> > 0                       1
> > -1                      1
> > 2                       1
> > -1                      1
> > etc
> 
> So that's the way gdb handles it right now.  Which can mean that
> optimized code is so tedious to debug for some applications and targets
> that you try to avoid it at all costs.  Not what I'd call 'not being able
> to tell the difference'.

Err, what are you talking about?
I mean this is what the debug info says, not what gdb *does* (or will
do).


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