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Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort |
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Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:50:52 +0200 |
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Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Eli> Sigh. I concluded a long time ago that it is useless to ask GCC and
> Eli> glibc developers to cater to debugging needs. At best, you are
> Eli> ignored; but more often you are flamed back into silence. I'm sorry
> Eli> that you, David, wasted your effort as well on this.
>
> FWIW on the GCC side there is a renewed awareness of the needs of
> debuggers. There are a couple competing proposals for better
> debuginfo; they are both being presented at the GCC Summit next week.
>
> So, I encourage folks to report GCC bugs in this area. I can't
> guarantee that nobody will be rude -- though this seems to happen less
> often nowadays.
No static debuginfo can help reconstructing a _jump_ history when
several places in the code jump to the same abort call. Only _call_
histories can be reconstructed with good debug info.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort, (continued)
- Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort, David Kastrup, 2008/06/13
- Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/14
- Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/06/14
- Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort, David Kastrup, 2008/06/14
- Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/06/14
- Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/15
- Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/14
- Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort, David Kastrup, 2008/06/14
- Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/14
Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort, Tom Tromey, 2008/06/13