Re: dwarf2read.c:read_tag_string_type ()

Petr Sorfa
2002-04-19T19:03:15Z

Hi Martin and Jim,

I can start focusing my attention to this next week (April 23 onwards).
I'll contact Daniel Berlin then for more discussions.

Petr
> Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:28:17AM -0400, Petr Sorfa wrote:
> > > > Hi Daniel,
> > > >
> > > > When can we expect the new location expression handler? I have several
> > > > patches waiting to be altered from my own DWARF3 location expression
> > > > handler. These patches include support for dynamic arrays (lower and
> > > > upper bounds, stride), arguments (dynamic), associated attributes and
> > > > allocated attributes . Basically a fair chunk of everything that uses
> > > > DW_AT_location with DW_FORM_block[124].
> > >
> > > I'm not sure. Daniel Berlin or Jim ought to have a better idea...
> >
> > Probably the best way to make this happen would be to offer to work
> > with Dan B. on what he's doing, or start your own patch. See
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-02/msg00045.html for the
> > original description of the idea, and the recent discussion between me
> > and Dan B.
>
> I may be able to help with this as well, but unfortunately I won't
> have any time for the next 3-4 weeks. However, I really need this for
> my C# debugging support.
>
> --
> Martin Baulig
> martin@gnome.org