From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3807 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2010 18:01:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 3750 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Apr 2010 18:01:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:01:16 +0000 Received: from int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3KI16rk014957 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:01:07 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3KI0wb2011882; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:00:58 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3KI0vYe025629; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:00:57 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 3516237979C; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:00:57 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Stan Shebs Cc: "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dwarf location expressions, tracing and printing References: <4BC7B823.6040406@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:01:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4BC7B823.6040406@codesourcery.com> (Stan Shebs's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:06:43 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00619.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs writes: Stan> Perhaps the most interesting part is that I finally got tired of Stan> working blind and filled out description location functions, so Stan> now both "info scope" and "info address" have quite a lot of say Stan> about variables. Try things like "info scope Stan> handle_inferior_event" to get some truly awesome verbiage. :-) Thanks, I think this is great. I think Jan had a similar patch that would enable disassembling the DWARF expression. I'm not sure what happened to that; it seems like something that would at least be useful when working on gdb or other parts of the toolchain. Tom