Re: Does DDD work with assembly language ".s" files?

[Cal Erickson]

All,
If you are using the GNU assembler you could try using the
--gstabs option to generate stabs debugging symbols.
I do not know if this will give you line numbers.

Cal

Hans Zuidam wrote:

> Andreas Zeller wrote:
> > "Heneghan, Joseph T (Joseph)" <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > I'm trying to debug i960 assembly code. My environment has C, C++,
> > > and I960 assembly code. DDD supports C fine, but does not appear to
> > > support the ".s" files.
> > However, I am not aware of GDB being able to list .s source files.
>
> The problem is that GNU as does not generate debugging information (such
> as line numbers and symbol information) when generating object code.
> These
> are directives like (this is for COFF):
>
>         .def fn; .val fn; .scl 2; .type 044; .endef
>
> for function fn.
>
> The only way to do this is by inserting those directives by hand.  The
> easiest way to do that is by having gcc compile a "typical" piece of C
> with `-S -g' and look at the debugging directives generated by gcc.
> This all depends very much on the debugging format used by the object
> format (COFF, dwarf, etc.)
>
> Regards,
>
>                                                 Hans
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