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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@broadcom.com>,
	       "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: error reading variable: value has been optimized out
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120903150648.GA16315@host2.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871uisibi3.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:46:12 +0200, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I'm not sure whether I'm understanding your comment correctly, but gdb
> does support partially optimized out values.  However, these are only
> supported for lval_computed values.  See lval_funcs::check_validity and
> check_any_valid.

value_bits_valid leads to val_print_optimized_out - <optimized out>
vs.
value_bytes_available leads to val_print_unavailable - <unavailable>


> Offhand it seems as though read_frame_register_value could create an
> lval_computed value if any register it needs is optimized out.  I don't
> know whether this is worth the effort.

dwarf2_evaluate_loc_desc_full 'ctx->num_pieces > 0' block looka as a nice
guide to it.


Thanks,
Jan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-03 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-24 12:11 Andrew Burgess
2012-08-26 18:22 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-27 15:46   ` Tom Tromey
2012-08-31  9:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-03 15:07     ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2012-08-31 10:33   ` Andrew Burgess
2012-09-01  8:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-03  8:32       ` Andrew Burgess
2012-09-03 11:24       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-03 15:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-03 15:17     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-04 16:58       ` Andrew Burgess
2012-09-05 18:54         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-12 17:30     ` Tom Tromey
2012-09-13 12:34       ` Andrew Burgess
2012-09-14 19:02         ` Tom Tromey
2012-09-14 21:39           ` Andrew Burgess
2012-09-17 16:57             ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-19 14:29               ` Andrew Burgess
2012-09-20 13:28                 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-21 17:19                   ` Andrew Burgess

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