>>>>> "Diego" == Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> writes:
Diego> Tom, Cary, Ian, any suggestions? We are trying to figure out a
Diego> compromise for tiny inline functions that are generally a nuisance
Diego> when debugging. The scenario is a call like this: big_function_foo
Diego> (inlined_f (x), inlined_g (y));
Diego> We want to use 's' to step inside the call to big_function_foo(), but
Diego> we don't want to step into either inlined_f() or inlined_g().
FWIW, I wrote the "macro define" stuff that Paolo posted back when I was
actively hacking on gcc. I consider it to be mildly superior to the
inline approach, because it circumvents the runtime type checking --
this is a plus because it means that if I type the wrong thing to gdb it
doesn't cause cc1 to abort. At least, this is a plus for me, since I
make mistakes like that with reasonable frequency.
Diego> I proposed extending #pragma GCC options to bracket these functions
Diego> with -g0. This would help reduce the impact of debug info size.
I think this is fixing the wrong component: it means making a
one-size-fits-all decision in the gcc build, instead of just making the
debugger be more flexible.
If you want to pursue the inline function approach, I suggest
resurrecting this gdb patch:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8287
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-06/msg00417.html
Then you could add the appropriate blacklisting commands to gcc's
.gdbinit by default.
Tom
