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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
Cc: randolph@tausq.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: dwarf2 and frame bases
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041111194728.GA16269@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411111941.iABJfeuD098483@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:41:40PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> The problem here is that the debug information provided my the
> compiler is wrong, or at least incomplete.  This should be fixed in
> the compiler, not in GDB.  Unfortunately this probably means we need
> to have proper support for location expressions in GDB.

Is there anything in particular that you know is missing?  The only
open issue I know of is multiple locations with overapping live ranges.
Using a location list for the frame base should work.

[But it's not clear how useful making DW_AT_frame_base work from the
first instruction of the function is... the locals are all still
uninitialized anyway.]

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz


      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-11 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-10 23:57 Randolph Chung
2004-11-10 23:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-11-11  3:09   ` Randolph Chung
2004-11-11  9:57     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-11-11 17:12       ` Randolph Chung
2004-11-11 19:42         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-11-11 22:58           ` Randolph Chung
2004-11-11 19:47         ` Mark Kettenis
2004-11-11 21:18           ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]

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