From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: DWARF location expressions considered harmful
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040412220715.GA2102@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jewu4kkgt7.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:49:24PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> The introduction of DWARF location expressions has made debugging of
> optimized code very difficult. Whenever a value is considered unavailable
> by GDB the current operation is aborted immediately. This makes commands
> like "info locals", "info args" or "info frame" pretty useless, because
> there is no way to "skip" over those unavailable values to see the rest of
> the information.
That's because GDB support for location expressions is not in every way
finished. You may want to file bugs with test cases.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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