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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Support DW_TAG_entry_point
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090423061003.GA7552@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hc0gv1c8.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

> HJ> I have a patch to support DW_TAG_entry_point.
> 
> I don't really understand most of this patch; perhaps someone more
> familiar with dwarf2read.c could review it.

I started reviewing it a while ago, but never got to the end of it.

> However:
> 
> HJ> +      /* A DW_TAG_subprogram DIE may have DW_TAG_entry_point DIEs
> HJ> +	 as children.  */ 
> HJ> +      if (pdi->tag == DW_TAG_subprogram
> HJ> +	  && pdi->has_children
> HJ> +	  && pdi->die_child
> HJ> +	  && pdi->die_child->tag == DW_TAG_entry_point)
> HJ> +	scan_partial_symbols (pdi->die_child, lowpc, highpc, cu);
> 
> This looks strange to me.  IIUC, there's no requirement that
> DW_TAG_entry_point be the first child.

That was my main observation at the time.

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-23 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-20 22:15 H.J. Lu
2009-03-21  1:02 ` Tom Tromey
2009-03-21 16:25   ` H.J. Lu
2009-03-23 18:26     ` Tom Tromey
2009-03-23 19:09       ` H.J. Lu
2009-04-22 21:13 ` Tom Tromey
2009-04-23 10:58   ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2009-04-23 11:10     ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-04-23 23:43       ` Tom Tromey
2009-04-23 23:49         ` H.J. Lu
2009-04-24  0:13           ` Joel Brobecker

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