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Re: question about method naming
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
Tom> If I type:
Tom> b x.main
Tom> gdb tells me that there is no such method.
Daniel> Are you working on a very current gcj? I.E. one that defaults
Daniel> to DWARF-2 output? I observe the same thing in 3.0.4 with
Daniel> -gdwarf-2, but not with -gstabs+.
Yes. I'm using the trunk cvs gcj.
Daniel> In this version, the stabs debug info claims that 'class x'
Daniel> has a member function 'main'. In DWARF-2 it claims that
Daniel> 'class x' has a member function 'x.main(java.lang.String[])'.
Daniel> If this is still the case in your compiler (check readelf -w
Daniel> output, search for a DW_TAG_subprogram whose name contains
Daniel> main) then I believe it is a gcj bug.
Ok. What is the correct output? `main(java.lang.String[])'?
I wonder if this was done because of the lack of namespace support in
gdb? In this case that would be strange (`x' is a class, not a
namespace). This is something I'll note in the bug report.
Daniel> Also amusing:
Daniel> <2><1c4>: Abbrev Number: 6 (DW_TAG_subprogram)
Daniel> DW_AT_external : 1
Daniel> DW_AT_name : ()
Daniel> DW_AT_MIPS_linkage_name: _ZN1xC1Ev
Daniel> DW_AT_artificial : 1
Daniel> DW_AT_declaration : 1
Daniel> The constructor's name is obviously wrong...
I saw this too.
Thanks for your insight,
Tom