Re: duplicated source file names

[John Williams <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au>]

Keith Seitz wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 15:01, John Williams wrote:
> 
>>>- "list ext2_read_super": Does it return the correct source?
>>
>>Nope - it lists the "correct" line numbers from the wrong file.  I'm 
>>guessing this is a problem in the binutils addr2line, is that what it's for?
> 
> 
> Close. Binutils doesn't really read debug info the way gdb does. They
> both try to do the same thing, but gdb looks at it slightly differently.

OK.
>>I'm not too stressed about this, I can just rename the source file and 
>>rebuild the project as I need to, just wanted to know if there was 
>>something simple I might do.
> 
> Yeah -- that's been the sad approach used by most. As I recall we have a
> file in gdb that used to use the same filename as another file in bfd.
> Instead fixing gdb, someone renamed gdb's file!

ha!  well if it's good enough for gdb, it's good enough for me :)

I have the source of this cross-gdb and can build it myself, if I feel 
inspired one day I might look into it.  Recommend any resources (old 
mailing list archives perhaps?) where I might find info on how the bug 
was fixed?

Thanks,

John