From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
Cc: Petr Sorfa <petrs@caldera.com>, Daniel Berlin <dan@dberlin.org>,
gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Upcoming DWARF 3 and FORTRAN95 patches for 5.1.1 or 5.2?
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020123193510.A3794@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <npu1tcbply.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:43:21PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> Another approach occurred to me just now that I wish I had thought of
> when Daniel B.'s patch first appeared. If the core of GDB could
> define a structure of functions (resembling `struct cp_abi_ops',
> `struct target_ops', etc.) that allowed a debug reader to provide its
> own set of functions for finding variables, describing their locations
> in English, and everything else we do with `enum address_class' now,
> then that would make it easy and clean to use straight Dwarf 2
> location expressions, without any translation into an allegedly
> "neutral" representation, and without contaminating the core of GDB.
>
> (This would also allow us to move some odd HP-UX-specific stuff like
> LOC_THREAD_LOCAL_STATIC out of the GDB core and into an HP-specific
> module.)
Yes! Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!
(I like it. A lot. We should discuss details of this.)
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-24 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-17 14:08 Petr Sorfa
2002-01-17 14:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-17 15:07 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-17 15:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-17 15:46 ` Petr Sorfa
2002-01-17 16:12 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-18 7:08 ` Petr Sorfa
2002-01-18 8:09 ` Petr Sorfa
2002-01-18 12:09 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-18 11:46 ` Petr Sorfa
2002-01-18 12:10 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-23 15:41 ` Jim Blandy
2002-01-23 16:18 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-23 16:36 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-23 17:10 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-23 16:38 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-01-23 17:19 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-02-01 13:44 ` Jim Blandy
2002-02-04 9:13 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-02-04 17:13 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-15 12:47 ` Jim Blandy
2002-02-04 16:29 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-17 15:20 ` Andrew Cagney
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