Re: Lifetime of local variables

[Martin Baulig <martin@gnome.org>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

> No.  I'd strongly object to adding any DWARF-2 tags without at least
> discussing them with the DWARF committee (which is quite responsive, I
> believe).

Yeah, good point.

> Also, I believe that this should be entirely subsumed by .debug_loc. 
> The first variable's value may no longer be available, but it has not
> actually gone out of scope, has it?  We should list it but claim that
> its value is unavailable.

It has actually gone out of scope. I want to use this to debug machine
generated IL code and the JIT may want to create local variables
on-the-fly. For variables which have actually been defined by a human
programmer, listing them and claiming that their value is no longer
available is IMHO the right thing to do - but I'd like to tell the
debugger to make a machine-generated variable disappear when it's no
longer used, otherwise you'd get a large number of automatic variables
(having numbers, not names, which makes it even more confusing to the
user) and only a very few of them are actually used.

Btw. are there any plans to implement .debug_loc anytime soon, I need
this for something else ?

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Martin Baulig
martin@gnome.org