-g?

[bagchi at snarf.eecs.umich.edu]

From: bagchi at eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: -g?
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        Does anyone have any information about what exactly the -g
option on compilers does?  I'm working with SPARC assembly, and
although I've examined the output of cc -S, I've only been partially
successful in duplicating the effect on my own assembly code -- the
debugger knows what line I'm on, but can't read the symbols in my
assembly code.

        Obviously, I intend to automate the process...I've been
looking at gcc code, and have a half-written perl filter which does
the line marking, so if anyone has code or the information I need,
please help.  I'll summarize to the net.

        -rj



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