Re: Stepping over longjmp presumably broken for glibc

[Simon Richter <Simon dot Richter at hogyros dot de>]

Hi,

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> If glibc maintainers actively fight the debugger's ability to debug
> their code, we will never succeed in catching up with them.  So I'd
> rather they stopped with that attitude and started cooperating with
> us.  I can ask RMS to try to influence the glibc team, if you think
> this will help.

I think it's another issue of debug vs. non-debug binaries. Any debugger 
will have a hard time finding the end of a higher-language construct in 
a non-debug binary. A debug binary on the other hand should not intermix 
constructs and take care to have enough hints for the debugger to find 
out stuff. A glibc for debugging should hence store usable pointers, and 
people should use a debug build when debugging the glibc.

   Simon aka Captain Obvious

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