Bugs in debuginfo packages

[Karel Klíč]

Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:55:35 +0200, Karel Klíč wrote:
>> I have observed GDB displaying wrong source file lines when stepping through
>> a program several times, and I think such a check could discover some
>> issues.
>
> Could you provide a reproducer?
I have never tried to prepare a reproducer, but I will try next time.

> How it could be fixed by the package maintainer?
Some kinds of issues should not be filed as bugs on affected
components. I do not intend to file everything to Bugzilla.

> If you mean jumping all around during "step" or "next" on -O2 -g code that is
> a known problem due to instructions scheduling by GCC, GCC not producing
> DW_LNS_negate_stmt and GDB strictly (in fact correctly) following what the
> debug info says.  This should be fixed in the future in GCC.
Yes, I probably mean jumping all around on -O2 -g code :-) Good to know,
thanks.

Karel