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Re: Bug Database?


From: Nick Roberts
Subject: Re: Bug Database?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:55:15 +1300

 > So basically what had to be done is: If you make the lookup between line
 > in source code and offset in object code, look if you are in a templated
 > function, if yes search for all matching offsets in object code instead
 > of only the first one. I looked at the code and while I wasn't able to
 > do the fix myself, I think for someone who knows gdb's internal, the fix
 > wouldn't be much work.
 > 
 > If gdb had a leader who said "we don't ship broken code", gdb developers
 > would be at annoyed because their favorite new feature of which they are
 > proud and fond isn't released to the public and would eventually sit
 > down and fix it, just as it happens in Emacs.

This is armchair advocacy.  I suspect that the fix isn't as easy as you
suggest, but if you feel that strongly about it, you could work on a fix.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob




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