RE: DWARF problem - newbie question

["Lev Assinovsky" <LAssinovsky at algorithm dot aelita dot com>]

Nop, I do see .debug_info but don't see .stab
gdb command "info macro M"
still complains.
My platform is Solaris 8 Intel.

Thanks,
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Lev Assinovsky
Aelita Software Corporation
O&S Core Division, Programmer
ICQ# 165072909


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Blandy [mailto:jimb@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 3:30 AM
> To: Lev Assinovsky
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: DWARF problem - newbie question
> 
> 
> 
> "Lev Assinovsky" <LAssinovsky@algorithm.aelita.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi!
> > I use gcc 3.2 and gdb+dejagnu-20030228.
> > Compile my code with -ggdb option which promises 
> > the most expressive extra debug info.
> > But when in gdb I request ""
> > I get:
> > GDB has no preprocessor macro information for that code, though
> > I do have macro M defined in my source.
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> 
> At the moment, to get macro information, you need to:
> - use the Dwarf 2 debugging format, and
> - pass GCC the -g3 flag, to ask it to include macro information.
> 
> You don't say which platform you're using.  On i686-pc-linux-gnu, GCC
> 3.2 defaults to using Dwarf 2.  You can check for sure by running
> 'readelf -S foo.o' on one of your .o files, compiled with plain -g:
> - If it has a section named '.debug_info', then that's Dwarf 2.
> - If it has a section named '.stab', then that's STABS.
> 
> If Dwarf 2 isn't the default, then you can request it with -gdwarf-2.
> So altogether, you'd need to say '-gdwarf-2 -g3'.
> 
> I don't really know how -ggdb decides which format is 'the most
> expressive'.  I think it's better to spell out what you want than to
> use that flag.
>