From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Post-mortem debugging and abort
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:50:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85skvhp10j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3abhptgfo.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:04:11 -0600")
Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
>>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Eli> Sigh. I concluded a long time ago that it is useless to ask GCC and
> Eli> glibc developers to cater to debugging needs. At best, you are
> Eli> ignored; but more often you are flamed back into silence. I'm sorry
> Eli> that you, David, wasted your effort as well on this.
>
> FWIW on the GCC side there is a renewed awareness of the needs of
> debuggers. There are a couple competing proposals for better
> debuginfo; they are both being presented at the GCC Summit next week.
>
> So, I encourage folks to report GCC bugs in this area. I can't
> guarantee that nobody will be rude -- though this seems to happen less
> often nowadays.
No static debuginfo can help reconstructing a _jump_ history when
several places in the code jump to the same abort call. Only _call_
histories can be reconstructed with good debug info.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-13 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-13 15:02 Post-mortem debugging and abort David Kastrup
2008-06-13 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-13 16:48 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-13 17:12 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-13 19:48 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-14 15:22 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14 16:08 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-14 21:20 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-14 23:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-15 17:55 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-14 9:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-14 21:13 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-14 15:21 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-13 17:04 ` Tom Tromey
2008-06-13 19:50 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-06-14 9:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-14 14:11 ` Tom Tromey
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