Sharanbr <sharanb@xxxxxxx> writes: > Thanks, Phil. I was thinking on the same lines after briefly going through > the gcc manual. > One more thing I thought might be useful is the debug info that gcc puts for > tools like gdb. > But I don't have enough knowledge on what exactly is the debug info > available? > If you are aware of it, please help me with some pointers ... The debug info tells you thinks like variable names, types, and locations, and a mapping from PC to source code location. It doesn't include source code comments. Ian