On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 11:55 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:44 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:22 +0000, Edward Catmur wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 08:40 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:09 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > > > > And one more thing. For proper debugging, don't I need the source to > > > > > be > > > > > present ? > > > > > > > > -g3 -ggdb embeds the source code in the debug info so I don't see the > > > > point. > > > > > > It doesn't; at least not with gcc 3.4.4. It does embed function > > > prototypes and macro definitions, though. > > > > > > Ed Catmur > > > > Eh? > > > Never mind you were right Ed. taviso pointed out that dwarf2 doesnt > support embedding the actual source. I was seeing the source due to me > not having deleted the source. > > Guess that is where the debugedit thing of Tester's would come in handy > on glibc hosts.
What is this debugedit thing for us non-devs ? IMO portage should have some way to keep the sources around for debugging, for the patch you are proposing to be fully useful. -- Cheers, Ivan Yosifov. -- [email protected] mailing list
