On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:29:03PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
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>The new code fixes some reported wrong-value-reported bugs in other
>debugging
>situations; one of them was reported just recently. So I don't think
>'equalled the functionality of the old mechanism' is really quite fair.
True. However, breaking `long long' is a serious regression. If a
developer can't trust that, what can they trust?
Historically it hasn't been all that trustable anyway. I don't have a
testcase handy but CORE_ADDRs in GDB backtraces tend to be wrong, even
when they're properly saved to the stack. Et cetera.