addr2line with stabs again

[H. J. Lu]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:18:59PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> >With stabs debugging addr2line seems to walk backward in the code as far as
> >it has to in order to find line number information.  The net effect is that
> >if you ask for the line number of an address inside a function that was
> >linked in from a static lib that didn't have debug info you will get the
> >source file and line number of whatever the last debug info is before that
> >address.  With dwarf-2 you get '??:0'.
> >
> >As a first step we only need to know if this is expected from stabs or if
> >this is a bug.
> 
> Oh it is a bug alright.  It may well have been fixed though as Fred FIsh 
> has
> been doing some work in this area.  Please could you try downloading the
> latest binutils sources and trying them.  If that does not fix the
> problem then please could you file a bug report ?
> 

FYI, the Linux binutils also includes

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-06/msg00099.html



H.J.