From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Daniel Berlin <dan@dberlin.org>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>, Petr Sorfa <petrs@caldera.com>,
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>,
gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Upcoming DWARF 3 and FORTRAN95 patches for 5.1.1 or 5.2?
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C4F5722.5040508@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201231914580.20533-100000@dberlin.org>
> Another approach occurred to me just now that I wish I had thought of
>> when Daniel B.'s patch first appeared. If the core of GDB could
>> define a structure of functions (resembling `struct cp_abi_ops',
>> `struct target_ops', etc.) that allowed a debug reader to provide its
>> own set of functions for finding variables, describing their locations
>> in English, and everything else we do with `enum address_class' now,
>> then that would make it easy and clean to use straight Dwarf 2
>> location expressions, without any translation into an allegedly
>> "neutral" representation, and without contaminating the core of GDB.
>
>
> I think i mentioned this a few times as the cleanest way to also be able
> to get rid of psymtabs for dwarf2, and use .debug_aranges/pubnames/etc.
> It would let you make stabs use psymtabs internally, and make dwarf2 less
> memory intensive and faster to load.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2001-03/msg00568.html
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-24 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-17 14:08 Petr Sorfa
2002-01-17 14:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-17 15:07 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-17 15:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-17 15:46 ` Petr Sorfa
2002-01-17 16:12 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-18 7:08 ` Petr Sorfa
2002-01-18 8:09 ` Petr Sorfa
2002-01-18 12:09 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-18 11:46 ` Petr Sorfa
2002-01-18 12:10 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-23 15:41 ` Jim Blandy
2002-01-23 16:18 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-23 16:36 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-01-23 17:10 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-01-23 16:38 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-23 17:19 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-02-01 13:44 ` Jim Blandy
2002-02-04 9:13 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-02-04 17:13 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-15 12:47 ` Jim Blandy
2002-02-04 16:29 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-17 15:20 ` Andrew Cagney
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