On Nov  1, 2012, Dehao Chen <de...@google.com> wrote:

> I see your point. How about we guard these changes with a flag, say
> -gless-jumpy

The right (DWARF-expected) approach to avoid this sortof jumpiness is to
teach GCC to emit .locs with is_stmt=1, along the lines (and
limitations) described in my GCC Summit paper on stmt frontier notes,
that proposes further extensions to deal with the foreseen limitations.

http://people.redhat.com/~aoliva/papers/sfn/gcc2010.pdf

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