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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>,
	Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
	 Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>,
	"jreiver@free.fr" <jreiver@free.fr>,
	"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: how to examine data with compiler optimization option set?
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220416592.3389.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y0mljyaudzb.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com>

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 23:04 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> writes:
> 
> > [...]
> > I don't think there is any possibility whatsoever of
> > somehow generating location codes for the variables in
> > the example.
> >
> > Those values are simply not kept anywhere.  GCC will replace
> > them all with the constant, "3".
> 
> You might be surprised.  Some RH engineers are working along these
> lines.  Being able to debug (<=> probe/trace) optimized code is
> becoming more and more important, and gcc is slowly getting into the
> mood to help.

I'm more than willing to be surprised...
it will be a pleasant one.  ;-)



  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03  4:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-02 21:27 J R
2008-09-02 21:36 ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-02 21:45   ` jreiver
2008-09-02 21:50     ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-02 21:57       ` Joel Brobecker
2008-09-03  0:05         ` Michael Snyder
2008-09-03  1:53           ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-03  2:52             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-03 14:35               ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-03  3:06           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-09-03  4:37             ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2008-09-03 14:36             ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-03 18:34             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 21:43               ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-04  8:01                 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-09-04 10:53                   ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-04 14:05                     ` Paul Koning
2008-09-04 14:09                       ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-04 14:15                         ` Paul Koning
2008-09-04 14:17                           ` Robert Dewar
2008-09-04 15:55                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-04 18:13                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-09-04 20:46                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-03  0:04     ` Michael Snyder

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