From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Nick Clifton <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>
To: Tracy Kuhrt <Tracy.Kuhrt@microchip.com>
Cc: binutils List <binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Incorrect Listing Output with .lcomm
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:18:00 -0000
Message-id: <m3vgirhsp1.fsf@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com>
References: <3B99553B.1F2443A@microchip.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00143.html

Hi Tracy,

> binutils configured for a target of sparc-sun-coff generates the
> following listing file in which the line numbers listed under DEFINED
> SYMBOLS do not match the line numbers where the symbol was defined.
> Also, the very first symbol 'a', does not have an associated file and
> line number.
> 
> Any ideas where I should start looking?

I suggest you start by examining the code in s_lcomm_internal() in
gas/read.c.  This parses the .lcomm directive and assigns a frag to
the newly creqted symbol, and it is the frag that contains the line
number information.

Cheers
        Nick