From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: David Taylor <taylor@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for tracking/evaluating dwarf2 location  expressions
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:44:00 -0000
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X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00571.html

Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:

> > No. DWARF2 is the only symbol format i know of which has support for
> > something as expressive as location expressions/lists.
> 
> It is often refered to as live range splitting.  I've seen an
> implementation using stabs.
> 
> 	Andrew
No, it's not *just* live range splitting.
I know about the live range splitting extensions to stabs.
I've also reimplemented live range splitting the new register
allocator i've been working on for gcc (on the gcc
new-regalloc-branch).

--Dan