From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org>
To: Martin Baulig <martin@gnome.org>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Lifetime of local variables
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 05:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1018961760.14863.3.camel@dberlin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86u1qghdp5.fsf@einstein.home-of-linux.org>
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 16:19, Martin Baulig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was recently working a bit on debugging support for C# (using Mono)
> and I need a way to tell GDB about the lifetime of local variables. In
> C#, the JIT engine may decide to store two different variables at the
> same stack offset if they aren't used throughout the whole function.
>
> Now I was wondering how to do this - DWARF 2 already has a
> `DW_AT_begin_scope' but unfortunately no `DW_AT_end_scope' - can we
> add this or something similar as a GNU extension ?
No need.
Just use DWARF2 location lists to describe where the variables are.
--Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-16 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-12 16:18 Martin Baulig
2002-04-12 16:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-13 4:35 ` Martin Baulig
2002-04-13 5:08 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-04-13 5:42 ` Martin Baulig
2002-04-13 11:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-13 12:53 ` Martin Baulig
2002-04-13 12:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-13 13:10 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-04-16 5:56 ` Daniel Berlin [this message]
2002-04-16 6:15 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-04-16 15:07 ` Jim Blandy
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