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Re: New Ada failure


On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:09:52PM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> >I think the problem is that you're using
> >lookup_symbol; isn't lookup_minimal_symbol sufficient?
> 
> Wouldn't really help, since once we break on this routine,
> we look at its arguments and local variables, so we really
> need full debug information for this routine. At least
> that's my understanding.

I see.  In that case, I think the best thing to do would be to mark the
test as unsupported in this configuration and return (and maybe mention
this in the manual).

If we only need its arguments, then a minimal symbol is sufficient.  If
we need named local variables, though, we're stuck.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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