stabs at function entry point?

[Geoff Keating]

> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:19:26 -0800
> Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> From: Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>

> Right, the only odd thing that happens is that if you do
> 
> (gdb) info line *&function
> 
> the line number returned is actually the last line of the previous 
> function.  While this is wrong, I don't think this is anywhere near as 
> wrong as breaking on the line where the function is defined, and having 
> it stop with the stack all wrong, etc...  If you are stopping in the 
> prologue, you are probably NOT doing source line debugging, after all.  
> So why would you really care exactly what line this is?

... because if I am debugging a core dump, and I see that it's crashed
on the last line of some function, and it really crashed on the first
line of some other function, I'm likely to be confused.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>