Re: stabs generation

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Dean,

> I am having a question on stabs generation.

Err, why are you uysing stabs with an ELF based toolchain ?  Wouldn't
it be better to use DWARF2 ?

> The elf file I generated, (redboot.elf from mipsisa32-elf cross
> compiler in Windows 2000 cygwin) generate the follwoing example for
> source files:
> 
> 4238   SO     0      0      00000000 39278
> /ecos-c/dev/ecos/packages/redboot/current/src/flash.c
> 18079  SO     0      0      00000000 165696
> /ecos-c/dev/ecos/packages/io/flash/current/src/flash.c
> 16408  SO     0      0      00000000 401
> /ecos-c/dev/redboot_build/redboot/current/
> 16409  SO     0      0      00000000 155759
> /ecos-c/dev/ecos/packages/redboot/current/src/net/dns.c
> 17060  SOL    0      0      9fc2240c 155759
> /ecos-c/dev/ecos/packages/redboot/current/src/net/dns.c
> 
> Is this going to confuse the debugger regarding the source code
> since the SO (N_SO) has no value while some of the include files do?

Probably. :-)  What version of the tools are you using ?  How did you
configure and build them ?  How did you build your test case ?  What
happens if you load the program into GDB and attempt to list a
function inside flash.c ?

Cheers
        Nick