Re: symtab/1195: no local symbol information within nested or nesting procedures

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

The following reply was made to PR symtab/1195; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
To: stolfi at ic dot unicamp dot br
Cc: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
Subject: Re: symtab/1195: no local symbol information within nested or nesting procedures
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:28:22 -0400

 On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 01:07:15PM -0000, stolfi at ic dot unicamp dot br wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         1195
 > >Category:       symtab
 > >Synopsis:       no local symbol information within nested or nesting procedures
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    unassigned
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 29 13:08:00 UTC 2003
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Jorge Stolfi, CS Dept, UNiversity of Campinas
 > >Release:        gdb 5.3
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > intel GNU/Linux Red Hat 2.4.18-14
 > >Description:
 > Gdb seems unable to report any local symbol information
 > within any nested procedure, or any procedure that contains
 > nested procedures.
 > 
 > I did not see any similar report in the bug database, but 
 > there may be some relation to problems #1180 or #222.
 > The latter was dismissed as "pascal-specific", but it
 > may be in fact an instance of the C problem reported here.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Compile the attached program and step through it.
 > Notice that function arguments are not listed when the 
 > debugger enters the functions "nested" or "subproc". 
 > Requests to print local variables of either function report
 > "No symbol ... in current context". 
 > >Fix:
 > None known.  The "info" documentation does not mention 
 > nested functions.  
 
 Please get a CVS snapshot of GDB and try again?  This sounds to me much
 like the DW_AT_ranges problem recently fixed.
 
 Directions for accessing CVS can be found at
 http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/.
 
 
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 Daniel Jacobowitz
 MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer