On 22 Nov 2009, at 18:43, Marc Weustink wrote: > while adding sourceline info to the Lazarus disassembler output I ran into > the DEBUGSTART_<unitnamehere>, DEBUGINFO_<unitnamehere> and > DEBUGEND_<unitnamehere> symbols. > What I wonder is why DEBUGSTART and DEBUGEND are reported as functions, while > DEBUGINFO is reported as datavariable (fpc 2.2.4, stabs).
DEBUGSTART and DEBUGEND are symbols in text section, while DEBUGINFO is a label in the data section. I don't know exactly how the mechanism works, but the only purpose of these symbols is to prevent debug info from being smartlinked out. They are irrelevant for the actual debugging. Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
