gdb does not stop at printf for ppc

Adhemerval Zanella Netto adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Tue Oct 7 17:21:46 GMT 2025



On 03/10/25 16:43, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> Adhemerval Zanella Netto via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:
> 
> I didn't really follow this discussion, but:
> 
>> Do we have the concept of symbol aliases for DWARF?
> 
> Yes, DWARF can use DW_TAG_imported_declaration.  However gdb's support
> for this is incomplete and you'd have to try it out to see if it's
> sufficient for this purpose.
> 
> Tom

Thanks for the information, but it seems that it can not be easily created
by the compiler on C code (typedef creates DW_TAG_typedef and asm function
aliases do not generate DWARF entries); and relying on a possible incomplete
is kinda fragile because we would like to support old gdb releases.

I think the local symbol aliases seems the best strategy.



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