From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19243 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2002 16:54:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19169 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2002 16:54:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx04.nexgo.de) (151.189.8.80) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Apr 2002 16:54:12 -0000 Received: from einstein.home-of-linux.org (dialin-212-144-185-012.arcor-ip.net [212.144.185.12]) by mx04.nexgo.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B8237F80; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:54:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by einstein.home-of-linux.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D389220010; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:54:09 +0200 (CEST) To: Jim Blandy Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Petr Sorfa , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: dwarf2read.c:read_tag_string_type () References: <867knbeq06.fsf@einstein.home-of-linux.org> <20020413142826.A13608@nevyn.them.org> <3CBAE381.97739EA8@caldera.com> <20020415102306.A15938@nevyn.them.org> From: Martin Baulig Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:54:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <863cxtne1a.fsf@einstein.home-of-linux.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00311.txt.bz2 Jim Blandy writes: > Daniel Jacobowitz 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