I'm trying to use gdb to debug code compiled with g++ (3.4.3) from .cpp source files that have, in turn, been compiled from higher-level source code by a special compiler we're developing here called Metropolis.
Metropolis source files have .mmm extensions, and there is a .cpp file generated for each one. #line directives are inserted in the .cpp files so gdb can display the .mmm source, and breakpoints can be set in terms of lines in the .mmm files.
The problem: Sometimes setting a breakpoint at a .mmm file line results in a breakpoint at an absurd place, unrelated to the desired line.
I ran "readelf -wl" on the executable to see what addresses are being associated with what lines of code in the DWARF-2 output. The results are interesting:
readelf shows that line 42 of P.mmm, where I want to set my breakpoint & can't, first gets one address associated with it (the wrong one, where my breakpoint really ends up). Then, further down in the output, it shows it getting the right one. (The wrong one is the address of the destructor of some class in the application.)
I've posted the relevant files here, at http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~allenh/bogus_dwarf. READ_ME.txt tells what to look for & where.
Any help or suggestions with this would be greatly appreciated. I don't understand how g++ works enough to make sense of it.
g++ is version 3.4.3
uname -a says:
Linux hig.eecs.berkeley.edu 2.6.7-1.494.2.2smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 3 09:59:49 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
-Allen Hopkins
