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Re: [LUG] gnu compiler experts anywhere?

 

On 03/11/10 08:26, Simon Waters wrote:
On 03/11/10 08:05, tom wrote:
When I was a lad....
When one compiles for debug these days the exe file is not the same as
the running version that crashes hence the difficulty of finding certain
problems.
I remember in my youth compiler/linkers making a separate map file that
could be used by the debugger - can the gnu tools do this?
Don't know, probably, but you can run add debugging to optimised code -
the results are "interesting" at times but works well enough and usually
finds problems caused by over optimistic optimisation. Although one
wonders what sort of code you are feeding it to find bugs these days....

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gdb/gdb_17.html

Its not my code and it uses some dynamic build method which makes it really hard to work out whats what! And apparently I'm looking for symbol files - gdb can take one but I cant see how to generate one...
Tom te tom te tom

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