Re: [open-cobol-list] gdb support from gcc-cobol

[Keisuke Nishida]

At Sun, 25 May 2003 21:09:48 +0200,
Bernard Giroud wrote:
> 
> I think I found what happens: in C, you have the function definition
> with parameters,
> and the top level block where the vars are defined. When you call
> poplevel from
> cb_end_function, because the flag functionbody is on, the BLOCK_VARS is
> reset to 0. If that last statement is commented out, we get the vars
> defined in the
> assembly file.
> 
> So I'm currently trying to modify slightly the code of cb_end_function
> to
> insert a new block which will hold the needed vars, but with no success
> ATM:
> the vars are still not output from the second level block.
> 
> Is my reasoning wrong ? Any hint would be welcome (See function below.)

I am not sure.  I encountered the same problem and have not
investigated it yet.

Maybe we could start with a tiny front end, apart from gcc-cobol,
investigate how to generate debugging information, and integrate
it into gcc-cobol.

Keisuke