From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27766 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2001 20:34:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 27743 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2001 20:34:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO monkey.daikokuya.demon.co.uk) (158.152.184.26) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2001 20:34:10 -0000 Received: from neil by monkey.daikokuya.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16BMHH-0005pO-00; Tue, 04 Dec 2001 20:34:55 +0000 Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 12:34:00 -0000 To: mike stump Cc: danishsamad@yahoo.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: problems debugging gcc Message-ID: <20011204203454.A20475@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> References: <200112041958.LAA06265@kankakee.wrs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200112041958.LAA06265@kankakee.wrs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i From: Neil Booth X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00158.txt.bz2 mike stump wrote:- > Yes. Step through bison.simple a couple hundred times, and you'll > discover that most of the time, it spends it's time in about two to > four places you care about. One place, is dispatching to actions. It > can be felt, by noticing the line (at least in bison 1.25): Have you noticed that you often get the debugger trying to step to a line in bison.simple that is in fact in parse.y, and complaining about a line out range? This happens to me very frequently; I have no idea what causes it. I have a sneaking suspicion that this GCC bug is what the original post was about, though I'm not sure. Neil.