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From: Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>
To: sumanth <sumanth.gundapneni@redpinesignals.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: extern variable
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A74F876.1040908@eagercon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A71B07A.1030600@redpinesignals.com>

sumanth wrote:
> Hi,
>     How can I make sure the debugging  information printed by my 
> compiler for extern variables is correct.

Make sure you compile with -g.  If you don't generate
debug info for the variable, gdb will default to printing
it as an unknown symbol.

-- 
Michael Eager	 eager@eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306  650-325-8077

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-02  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-30 14:53 sumanth
2009-08-02  2:22 ` Michael Eager [this message]
2009-08-02 19:34 ` Jim Wilson
2009-08-03  4:32   ` sumanth
2009-08-03 16:02     ` Jim Wilson
2009-08-03 18:54       ` sumanth
2009-08-03 20:10         ` Jim Wilson
2009-08-04 15:35           ` sumanth

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