[fedora-java] line numbers

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Fri Jun 9 10:11:05 UTC 2006


Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Right indeed.  If we have a line number lookup of our own, and if it's
 > > fast enough, it can just look in the debuginfo files.
 > >   
 > Yeah, there's that option too. But do we want to provide line numbers 
 > even if debuginfo is not installed?

That's an interesting question.  I would argue not, because line
numbers are unquestionably debuginfo.  I suppose it all depends on
whether you consider line numbers to be of use to people who aren't
actively debugging: I don't.  But I can recognize the argument that
the line number table is small, so why not include it?

Andrew.




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