Re: [MiNT] gdb & gcc 4.3.2

[Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>]

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