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Re: Debugger problems

From Borax Man <rotflol2@nospicedham.hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.asm.x86
Subject Re: Debugger problems
Date 2023-12-04 12:01 +0000
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On 2023-12-04, Borax Man <rotflol2@nospicedham.hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 Dec 2023 16:43:39 GMT
> Tavis Ormandy <taviso@nospicedham.gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I tested this on Debian 12... 32 bit (my laptop is old).
>
>

Just to clarify, NASM version 2.16.01.

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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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