From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24645 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2003 16:57:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24637 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2003 16:57:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 16:57:34 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18f2q9-0006uX-00; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 12:58:09 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18f0xm-0007i3-00; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 11:57:54 -0500 Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 16:57:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Michal Ludvig Cc: GDB Patches Subject: Re: [RFA] Location list support. Message-ID: <20030201165754.GA29615@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michal Ludvig , GDB Patches References: <3E3B7C35.6030208@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E3B7C35.6030208@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 08:50:13AM +0100, Michal Ludvig wrote: > Hi all, > this is a first part of my attempt to enable use of dwarf3 .debug_loc > sections (as generated by GCC's rtlopt-branch) for variable tracking. > With this patch GDB at least doesn't segfault as it did when trying to > debug a binary with .debug_loc section. > It can already read and parse .debug_loc and then use the appropriate > first block found for a given DIE for obtaining the SYMBOL_VALUE() in > newsymbol(). So now it behaves exactly like it did with GCCs that didn't > emit .debug_loc. > I hope to have a full support (ie. SYMBOL_VALUE that depends on PC) > available soon. > This was developped in gdb-5.3 but should be usable with mainline with > no problems. > > Comments? Approvals? > > Michal Ludvig Michal, Can I ask you to sit on this patch for another two or three days? I'll have LOC_COMPUTED ready probably on Monday, and after that it would be easy to take what you've done and use it for proper location lists. Merging this in now would make my work a lot harder. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer