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Namespaces with gcc v3 stabs+?
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:31:55 -0600
- Subject: Namespaces with gcc v3 stabs+?
Question for Daniel J or David C or Kevin B or anybody who knows
about v3 and stabs support ...
I'm looking at disimprovements from gcc v2 to gcc v3. One of the
issues is that gcc 2.95.3 / stabs+ emits stab information
for symbols in namespaces, but gcc 3.2.1 / stabs+ emits the stab
information with the wrong name.
Here is a test program:
namespace AAA
{
char mychar;
}
Here is the output with gcc 2.95.3:
# gcc 2.95.3, -gstabs+, native i686-pc-linux-gnu
.stabs "_3AAA.mychar:G(0,2)",32,0,3,0
.globl _3AAA.mychar
.bss
.type _3AAA.mychar,@object
.size _3AAA.mychar,1
_3AAA.mychar:
.zero 1
And here is the output with gcc 3.2.1:
# gcc 3.2.1, -gstabs+, native i686-pc-linux-gnu
.globl _ZN3AAA6mycharE
.bss
.type _ZN3AAA6mycharE,@object
.size _ZN3AAA6mycharE,1
_ZN3AAA6mycharE:
.zero 1
.stabs "mychar:G(0,2)",32,0,3,0
Notice how the stab refers to "mychar", not "_ZN3AAA6mycharE".
The output is similar with gcc 3.0.4, gcc 3.1, gcc 3.1.1, gcc 3.2,
and gcc HEAD%20021203.
Is this ringing any bells?
Kevin B had a similar issue in May 2002:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-11/msg01661.html
I would like to file a bug report against gcc, and then change
the test script gdb.c++/namespace.exp to XFAIL the test with
stabs+ format and v3 (or later) compilers.
Michael C