From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Roul Oldenburger <oldenburger.roul@rheinmetall-de.com>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb-internal: determining the type of a variable
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 14:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031006145424.GB32561@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F818024.7020605@rheinmetall-de.com>
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:45:56PM +0200, Roul Oldenburger wrote:
> Thanks for your effort giving me your explanation!
>
> Looking at the stabs information from our executables which are linked
> from several o-files I find FILENUM being 0 for all typedescriptions.
> Probably I could distinguish between the duplicate descriptions if
> FILNUM would differ. Unfortunately I don't know why it is 0 all the way?
>
> Roul
FILENUM is only different within a single compilation unit - N_SO. You
have to parse it in chunks, from an N_SO with a value until the next
N_SO generally.
But if you are going to parse debug info, I really recommend DWARF
instead... it's much easier.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-06 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-02 12:48 Roul Oldenburger
2003-10-02 15:35 ` Elena Zannoni
2003-10-02 15:40 ` Jim Blandy
2003-10-06 14:42 ` Roul Oldenburger
2003-10-06 14:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-10-06 21:09 ` Jim Blandy
2003-10-07 7:16 ` Roul Oldenburger
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