[fpc-devel] Re: Debug Info proposal

[Marc Weustink]

Fabio Dell'Aria wrote:
> Can you tell we more about the iirc gdb please?

IIRC -> If I Recall Correctly

This is about plain gdb, since fpide uses gdblib I don't know if it 
counts foir that too.

Anyway, on my fedora core, I've the option to install a 
somelib-debuginfo package. This package installs
/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libname.so.x.y.z.debug
and
/usr/src/debug/packagename-version/*.c

I didn't read the gdb info again, but from what I recal, gdb 
automagically searches for any path+lib loaded in /usr/lib/debug
if this path+lib.debug exists. If so, it uses that as symbol source.
Further, it looks in /usr/src/debug/ for sources.

This is why I wondered about the statement that the debugger doesn't 
support it.

Marc



> 2008/1/13, Marc Weustink <marc at dommelstein.net>:
>> Daniël Mantione wrote:
>>>
>>> Op Sat, 12 Jan 2008, schreef Fabio Dell'Aria:
>>>
>>>> OK, but why do not add the debug info in an external file (conform to
>>>> stabs/dwarf specification)?
>>> Because the debugger doesn't support this; the compiler can do it, but,
>>> without debugger support it is useless.
>> ??
>> iirc gdb (at least on linux) supports this. This is how I debug gdk libs.
>>
>> Marc
>>
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