Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!thor!pcg
From: pcg@thor.cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: Re: collect.c can't handle extended symbols
Message-ID: <PCG.89Sep3132719@thor.cs.aber.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Sep 89 12:27:19 GMT
References: <4428@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP
Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru
Lines: 25
In-reply-to: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM's message of 1 Sep 89 23:28:45 GMT

In article <4428@orca.WV.TEK.COM> andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) writes:

   collect.c doesn't deal correctly with extended symbols in COFF object
   files, e.g., the output from 'gcc -g' or 'g++ -g0'.

As I do not like symbolic debuggers (I vastly prefer
instrumenting the source, or assembler debuggers to look at
system dependent problems), I have not bothered much with the
various problems of '-g0' for 'g++' under system V.

However, here is another one: 'g++' allows arguments to
procedures to be unnamed; no name is generated for them in the
symtab entry, and the assembler complains about illegal syntax. A
'fake' name ought to be generated.

Reproduce-by:

	main(auto int, auto char *argv[])
	{
	}

--
Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi           | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth        | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg
Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk