Re: Symbols/blocks questions

Joel Brobecker
2009-09-19T17:02:17Z

> Then, it's probably likewise not true for any other random address
> in block. And then, the only reliable way to identify a block is via
> its address.

I think that's correct. We have routines IIRC that locate the innermost
block for a PC, or something like that, but I don't think we identify
blocks by their start address...

> What I'm trying to do is make -stack-list-variables output block
> together with a name of variable, and make -var-create accept
> some block specification. This, together, should all to display
^^^allow ?
> shadowed variables in frontend. Looks like 'block' should be
> the string rendition of the address of struct block :-/

Depending on the language, lexical blocks can be named, and it looks
like DWARF supports that, so I suppose you could you that. But blocks
can definitely be annonymous too, in which case the "string rendition"
might be a challenge...

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Joel