Verifying Debug Info.

[Alex Newman]

> -----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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