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Re: More than one stabn for the same PC



  In message <19991129223717L.mitchell@codesourcery.com>you write:
  > >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
  > 
  >     Jeffrey> Though I am curious, how does this happen?
  > 
  > We tend to do this with inlining.  (We're doing it more with
  > inlining-on-trees, but we used to do it anyhow.)  Consider:
  > 
  >   int i;
  >   inline int f () {  
  >     i = 3;
  >   }
  >   void g() {
  >     f();
  >   }
  > 
  > In `g' we first emit a line note for the line with the curly brace for
  > `g', then emit a line note for the line with `i = 3' in it.  I think
  > that's roughly the right thing, but the debugger gets confused.
Looking at that I'd claim only one of the line notes should exist (probably
the one of the "i = 3" statement.

But it may be the case that our opinions about what constitutes sane debugging
information for inline function calls differs.
jeff


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