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Contributed by Cygnus Support. Written by Julia Menapace, Jim Kingdon,
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and David MacKenzie.
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<p>
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Next: <a href="Stab-Sections.html#Stab-Sections" accesskey="n" rel="next">Stab Sections</a>, Previous: <a href="Expanded-Reference.html#Expanded-Reference" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Expanded Reference</a>, Up: <a href="index.html#Top" accesskey="u" rel="up">Top</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Symbol-Types-Index.html#Symbol-Types-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<a name="Questions-and-Anomalies"></a>
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<h2 class="appendix">Appendix E Questions and Anomalies</h2>
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<ul>
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<li> For GNU C stabs defining local and global variables (<code>N_LSYM</code> and
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<code>N_GSYM</code>), the desc field is supposed to contain the source
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line number on which the variable is defined. In reality the desc
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field is always 0. (This behavior is defined in <samp>dbxout.c</samp> and
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putting a line number in desc is controlled by ‘<samp>#ifdef
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WINNING_GDB</samp>’, which defaults to false). GDB supposedly uses this
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information if you say ‘<samp>list <var>var</var></samp>’. In reality, <var>var</var> can
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be a variable defined in the program and GDB says ‘<samp>function
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<var>var</var> not defined</samp>’.
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</li><li> In GNU C stabs, there seems to be no way to differentiate tag types:
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structures, unions, and enums (symbol descriptor ‘<samp>T</samp>’) and typedefs
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(symbol descriptor ‘<samp>t</samp>’) defined at file scope from types defined locally
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to a procedure or other more local scope. They all use the <code>N_LSYM</code>
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stab type. Types defined at procedure scope are emitted after the
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<code>N_RBRAC</code> of the preceding function and before the code of the
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procedure in which they are defined. This is exactly the same as
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types defined in the source file between the two procedure bodies.
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GDB over-compensates by placing all types in block #1, the block for
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symbols of file scope. This is true for default, ‘<samp>-ansi</samp>’ and
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‘<samp>-traditional</samp>’ compiler options. (Bugs gcc/1063, gdb/1066.)
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</li><li> What ends the procedure scope? Is it the proc block’s <code>N_RBRAC</code> or the
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next <code>N_FUN</code>? (I believe its the first.)
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