On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:56:36PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > However, it is good enough to have > > > > .stabs "Base1:Tt(0,41)=s4x:(0,9),0,32;getx::(0,44)=#(0,41), > > (0,9),(0,43)=*(0,41),(0,36);:_ZN5Base14getxEv;2A.;;",128,0,1,0
> Eh, no. You have just lost any information about what constructors > were declared in the class. Yeah, Devang didn't present what we're doing here on the debug side too well. We're giving up a bit of information from within gdb -- it won't know what constructors and destructors a class has defined -- for a large savings in debug info (this can be over 20% of an application's debug info when lots of templates are in heavy use). Because the FUN stabs are still present, gdb knows about the constructors; it can step into them, it can set breakpoints on them. For most developers, this isn't a worthwhile tradeoff, but for a certain class of appliations the stabs debug info is enormous and this helps to ameloriate that by giving up a small bit of gdb functionality. This won't be enabled by default even within Apple, but it is a useful option to have available. Jason
