From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3558 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2003 18:58:11 -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 3550 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2003 18:58:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2003 18:58:10 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.24 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMXWk-0002is-C9 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:58:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:58:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Previous discussions about recording accurate code ranges in psymtabs? Message-ID: <20031119185810.GA10379@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20031119183904.GE1067@gnat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031119183904.GE1067@gnat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00401.txt.bz2 On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:39:04AM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote: > I was looking at the current code and trying to figure out how to > modify GDB to record accurate code ranges in its psymtabs instead > of the textlow/texthigh pair. It looks like it's going to be a major > change, so I'm trying to find a path that would allow for a transition > rather than a gigantic patch. > > Daniel mentioned that this has been discussed before. Any pointer to > these discussions? I found some discussions, but they seemed to make > a decision to move the opposite way: "Remove live range support"... Jim Blandy posted a proposed interface for describing the ranges, but I can't find the subject now. And live ranges are something completely different :) More like .debug_loc location lists, really. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer