From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10448 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2003 08:26:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10441 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2003 08:26:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web60108.mail.yahoo.com) (216.109.118.87) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Oct 2003 08:26:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20031015082657.63907.qmail@web60108.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.199.140.162] by web60108.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:26:57 PDT Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:26:00 -0000 From: ankit thukral Subject: Dwarf information about a symbol To: gdb@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <3F856FA3.9020300@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00197.txt.bz2 hi all, this is regarding the dwarf information regarding a variable (which is in struct symbol in the following field : symbol.aux_value.loc.baton.data ).can this information change over different stages in the process? for instance,if a variable ,which is in a register during early stages of the program,ceases to be in the register (due to less usage) and is stored in memory,then the symbol Dwarf information should change from DW_OP_regx to DW_OP_fbreg. i am not very sure whether my knowledge about the compilation process (gcc , of course) is correct to this end. thanks in advance, ankit. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com