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Re: Previous discussions about recording accurate code ranges in psymtabs?
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at gnat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:52:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: Previous discussions about recording accurate code ranges in psymtabs?
- References: <20031119183904.GE1067@gnat.com>
Joel Brobecker writes:
> I was looking at the current code and trying to figure out how to
> modify GDB to record accurate code ranges in its psymtabs instead
> of the textlow/texthigh pair. It looks like it's going to be a major
> change, so I'm trying to find a path that would allow for a transition
> rather than a gigantic patch.
>
> Daniel mentioned that this has been discussed before. Any pointer to
> these discussions? I found some discussions, but they seemed to make
> a decision to move the opposite way: "Remove live range support"...
>
> --
> Joel
Yes, there were patches from Peter Sorfa (or Sofra) from Caldera. Jim
started also a branch a couple of years back. I don't have references
handy, sorry. And yes, i need to reply to a lot of mail (I was really
busy these past 2-3 days), will be back on line shortly.
elena