Re: [PATCH] Consistent display of ""

Andrew Burgess
2013-08-12T13:32:00Z

On 06/08/2013 7:39 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 08/06/2013 04:41 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 14:49:03 +0100
>>> From: "Andrew Burgess" <aburgess@broadcom.com>
>
>>> 3. My understanding was that values lost due to the ABI of a call site
>>> were recorded as optimized out. For evidence I would present
>>> dwarf2_frame_prev_register, and how DWARF2_FRAME_REG_UNDEFINED is handled.
>>>
>>> For these reasons I believe my patch should still be considered, what do
>>> you think?
>>
>> I think that registers are either available or unavailble. A register
>> being unavailble implies that a variable that is supposed to live in
>> such a register may have been optimized out. Whether GDB's pseudo
>> variables that respresent registers are considered unavailable or
>> optimized out in that case is arguable.
>
> I think improving consistency as in Andrew's patch is good.

Given almost a week has passed with no further feedback I plan to
commit this patch tomorrow unless there's any further discussion to be had.

Thanks,
Andrew