From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Oct 20 16:10:47 2008 From: Eero Tamminen Organization: Koti To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] gdb & gcc 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:05:22 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Vincent =?iso-8859-1?q?Rivi=E8re?= , mint References: <48FA3E48.1060509@gmail.com> <48FCB8E8.4010101@freesbee.fr> In-Reply-To: <48FCB8E8.4010101@freesbee.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810202305.22774.oak@helsinkinet.fi> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: oak@helsinkinet.fi Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id m9KKAkrO030265 Hi, On Monday 20 October 2008, Vincent Rivière wrote: > > Did you also try that BFD from binutils as you proposed? > > I tried the new BFD patch, unfortunately it does not apply to the old > BFD provided by GDB 5.0. Anyway, I will try to update the whole BFD > library, but I don't really think it will fix that bug. > > > Maybe it would be worth of trying to look into changelogs -- with some > > luck there will be a hint. > > Maybe. I had another idea... For a very simple C source, the generated > assembly source should be nearly identical with GCC 2.95 and GCC > 4.2.3... The differences might be a clue ! There should be fairly large changes in the generated Dwarf-3 debug information at least... Later GCC versions support for example location lists (which help debugger to track variables in optimized code). - Eero