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  64. <h2 class="appendix">Appendix E Questions and Anomalies</h2>
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  66. <li> For GNU C stabs defining local and global variables (<code>N_LSYM</code> and
  67. <code>N_GSYM</code>), the desc field is supposed to contain the source
  68. line number on which the variable is defined. In reality the desc
  69. field is always 0. (This behavior is defined in <samp>dbxout.c</samp> and
  70. putting a line number in desc is controlled by &lsquo;<samp>#ifdef
  71. WINNING_GDB</samp>&rsquo;, which defaults to false). GDB supposedly uses this
  72. information if you say &lsquo;<samp>list <var>var</var></samp>&rsquo;. In reality, <var>var</var> can
  73. be a variable defined in the program and GDB says &lsquo;<samp>function
  74. <var>var</var> not defined</samp>&rsquo;.
  75. </li><li> In GNU C stabs, there seems to be no way to differentiate tag types:
  76. structures, unions, and enums (symbol descriptor &lsquo;<samp>T</samp>&rsquo;) and typedefs
  77. (symbol descriptor &lsquo;<samp>t</samp>&rsquo;) defined at file scope from types defined locally
  78. to a procedure or other more local scope. They all use the <code>N_LSYM</code>
  79. stab type. Types defined at procedure scope are emitted after the
  80. <code>N_RBRAC</code> of the preceding function and before the code of the
  81. procedure in which they are defined. This is exactly the same as
  82. types defined in the source file between the two procedure bodies.
  83. GDB over-compensates by placing all types in block #1, the block for
  84. symbols of file scope. This is true for default, &lsquo;<samp>-ansi</samp>&rsquo; and
  85. &lsquo;<samp>-traditional</samp>&rsquo; compiler options. (Bugs gcc/1063, gdb/1066.)
  86. </li><li> What ends the procedure scope? Is it the proc block&rsquo;s <code>N_RBRAC</code> or the
  87. next <code>N_FUN</code>? (I believe its the first.)
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