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Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 23:45:13 EST
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Is there any documentation on the symbol table format used by gdb (and
dbx)?  We are using the MetaWare Professional Pascal compiler.  It has
many wonderful features, and one major flaw.  It doesn't work with dbx
or gdb, although it reportedly works with sdb.  I have identified one
problem.  One of the standard entries is missing the final semicolon.
I hacked up a version of gdb (from the emacs 18.35 distribution) to
allow this, and to accept pascal range types.  There now seems to be a
problem identifying the contents of various scopes.  Gdb will
correctly identify the current source line, but not the procedure name
or any local variables.  'Info frame' causes gdb to core-dump (it
never finds a valid name).  I suspect that the compiler is not
generating the symbol table in the exact format that gdb is expecting;
but would rather not have to determine that format by examining the
code.