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Re: Debugger problems

From Tavis Ormandy <taviso@nospicedham.gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.asm.x86
Subject Re: Debugger problems
Date 2023-12-03 16:43 +0000
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On 2023-12-03, Borax Man wrote:
> On 2023-12-02, Tavis Ormandy <taviso@nospicedham.gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2023-12-02, Borax Man wrote:
>>> NASM can generate debugging information which I believe will generate
>>> line info.  Pass '-F dwarf' option to nasm if under Linux, and you should see each
>>> line of source in the debugger.
>>
>> You're thinking of line markers I think (like %line 123), but I think
>> Martijn wants the assembler to do that automatically so that b
>> foo.asm:123 works, like it does in gas.
>>
>> As far as I know nasm won't do that?
>>
>
> I did a test using nasm with the '-F dwarf' and '-g' parameters, and I
> was able to add breakpoints in GDB specifying the line using the
> syntax you mentioned.

Weird.... and this is for elf64?

Perhaps you have a newer version than me, good to know it will arrive eventually!

Tavis.

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Debugger problems Martijn Bos <martijnm.bos@gmail.com> - 2023-11-30 01:00 -0800
  Re: Debugger problems Tavis Ormandy <taviso@nospicedham.gmail.com> - 2023-12-02 00:28 +0000
    Re: Debugger problems Borax Man <rotflol2@nospicedham.hotmail.com> - 2023-12-02 09:17 +0000
      Re: Debugger problems Martijn Bos <martijnm.bos@nospicedham.gmail.com> - 2023-12-02 03:04 -0800
      Re: Debugger problems Tavis Ormandy <taviso@nospicedham.gmail.com> - 2023-12-02 17:38 +0000
        Re: Debugger problems Borax Man <rotflol2@nospicedham.hotmail.com> - 2023-12-03 09:30 +0000
          Re: Debugger problems Tavis Ormandy <taviso@nospicedham.gmail.com> - 2023-12-03 16:43 +0000
            Re: Debugger problems Borax Man <rotflol2@nospicedham.hotmail.com> - 2023-12-04 18:10 +1100
              Re: Debugger problems Borax Man <rotflol2@nospicedham.hotmail.com> - 2023-12-04 12:01 +0000
                Re: Debugger problems Martijn Bos <martijnm.bos@nospicedham.gmail.com> - 2023-12-06 03:55 -0800
    Re: Debugger problems Martijn Bos <martijnm.bos@nospicedham.gmail.com> - 2023-12-02 02:12 -0800

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