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 -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer