Re: how to examine data with compiler optimization option set?

[Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>]

Paul Koning wrote:

> Is the problem inadequate debug information (i.e., the values are
> there, but there isn't debug data that points to the correct registers
> or stack slots) -- or is the problem that the values you want to see
> are dead by the time you get to them and the registers holding them
> have been reused by then?   Or something in between, i.e., the values
> are technically dead, but the registers have NOT yet been reused so
> the debug information can (and should) still show where they are.

Well on entry to a function, (if you breakpoint on entry), the
parameters cannot have been overwritten yet I would think!
> 
>     paul