Ian Lance Taylor-3 wrote: > > 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 > > Thanks, Ian. So is there a documentation that explains the exact information gcc stores? Is there a standard way of storing such debug info so that third party can write debuggers? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/preserving-comments-tp30296498p30349962.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.