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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for tracking/evaluating dwarf2 location expressions
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AC51885.30AF5EBE@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103301400270.24037-100000@www.cgsoftware.com>

Dan, just some things to tweek,

State machines are normally implemented using a switch and not a chain
of ifs.  Check dwarf2read.c:decode_locdesc() as an example (hmm, slight
dejavu :-).

While fall through switches such as:

+         /* Determine the size to read, and whether it's signed or
+            not */
+         switch (op)
+           {
+           case DW_OP_const1s:
+             sign = 1;
+           case DW_OP_const1u:
+             readsize = 1;
+             break;

might be cute they tend to make the life of those that follow painful. 
As they say, dumb the code down.

Don't forget ``a = b'' not ``a=b''.

Just use ``struct value *'', I've every intention of zapping
``value_ptr''! :-)

  value_ptr stack[64];
Is there a constant for this?  A quick glance at decode_locdesc() and it
has the same hardwired constant.

From memory, the dwarf2 state machine doco states that you should return
the top-of-stack when the machine has finished executing.  This means
that the stack may not be empty and that the code could potentially leak
``struct value *''s.

	enjoy,
		Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-30 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-30 11:11 Daniel Berlin
2001-03-30 15:36 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-03-30 18:53   ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-06 11:53     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-04-06 12:10       ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-06 12:36         ` Kevin Buettner
2001-04-06 23:18           ` [PATCH] Add support for tracking/evaluating dwarf2 locationexpressions Daniel Berlin
2001-05-21 14:46 ` [PATCH] Add support for tracking/evaluating dwarf2 location expressions Jim Blandy
2001-05-21 18:49   ` Daniel Berlin
2001-05-22 12:46     ` Jim Blandy
2001-05-22 13:51       ` Daniel Berlin
2001-05-22 23:14         ` Jim Blandy
2001-05-23  8:51           ` Daniel Berlin
2001-05-23 11:53           ` Daniel Berlin
2001-05-23 21:53             ` Jim Blandy
2001-05-23 22:56               ` Daniel Berlin
2001-06-06  9:07   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-06-06  9:46     ` Daniel Berlin
2001-06-07  7:29       ` Andrew Cagney
2001-03-30 13:49 David Taylor
2001-03-30 14:42 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-03-30 15:14   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-03-30 18:44     ` Daniel Berlin
2001-03-30 15:23   ` Elena Zannoni
2001-03-30 15:24   ` Andrew Cagney
2001-03-30 18:46     ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-06 12:02       ` Andrew Cagney
2001-04-06 12:40         ` Daniel Berlin

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