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From: bruno@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bruno Melli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: xdb bug?
Message-ID: <7370388@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 6 May 91 16:16:01 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.152402.29377@eye.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> The problem is that xdb assumes that all structs of type "struct foo"
> will be the same as the first struct of type "struct foo" that it
> encounters in the link sequence.

If the 2 structures have the same name, this is indeed the correct
explanation. If however the structures have a different name, this
is most likely due to invalid debug information. We just ran into a
similar problem about 2 weeks ago. One potential work around is to
compile a dummy file that just includes the structure definition, and
declares a static of that type. Link in that dummy .o file ahead of
any other file when you create a debuggable file. That should
solve your problem.

bruno.