.debug_info in gas

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Thu Oct 31 09:00:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:23:00PM +0200, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> At the moment, gas contibutes only the first source file it assembles
> in .debug_info. When I proposed to make the change, in order to have
> mulitple records in .debug_info for every compilation unit, Richard
> told me that this isn't right. Why?

One object file _is_ one unit of compilation, by definition.
C headers do not result in multiple translation units, which
is exactly the same situation.


r~



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