[Dwarf-Discuss] gcc, g++ and dwarf

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:28:51 +0200, ranjith kumar wrote:
> typedef struct
> {
[...]
> }type27;
[...]
> int main()
> {
[...]
> 	type27 t;
[...]
> I could not get any debugging information for "type27"
> 
> Why so????

This is offtopic to the DWARF standard itself, it is just a known G++ debug PR:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35463

Although Ian Taylor says it works for him (possibly in g++ HEAD):
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2009-04/msg00402.html


> In this link
> http://examples.oreilly.com/palmprog/CDROM/Linux/gcc/gcc-2.7.2.2/README.DWARF
> I foundout the following statements:
> "DWARF generation for the GNU g++ compiler is still not operable.  This is
> due primarily to the many remaining cases

gcc-2.7.2.2 - this is very obsolete information.


Regards,
Jan