Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/02/09:15:42
Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Wait a minute. You cannot debug it even under -O0? If so, then this
> > has nothing to do with debugging optimized code. Can you post a code
> > fragment that escapes debugging and explain how exactly does it
> > prevent you from debugging it?
> That is correct, even with -O0, it will skip break-points. The problem is
> that it only seems to happen on large (600+ lines of code) files. I can't get
> any simple examples to screw up. But, I was able to sort-of do something. I
> removed as much code as I could, and commented out the rest (removing the
> comments made the problem go away). I have binarily attached it to this
> message, because re-formatting the text file seems to get rid of this
> phenomenon. You can step through the code, but setting a break-point (by
> pressing F4) on line #132 (or #133) in the main file will cause the entire
> program to be executed, not stopping where I desired. It includes another
> file, which I have provided. I have experienced this multiple times, but
> always in large files. Just save the 2 files in the same directory, and load
> 'fade9T.cc' and press F4 on line 132, and you watch it skip that point. All
> the program does is print out 2 strings and 1 integer using cout. It doesn't
> seem to matter if it is compiled in a project or not, and optimization level
> doesn't seem to matter.
Looks like a bug in gdb I tried using gdb and it ignored the breakpoint.
Using -gstabs+ I was able to stop the program in the line 133, not in 132.
I checked and the debug information for line 132 is in the .S file generated
by gcc.
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