From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11331 invoked by alias); 16 Apr 2002 22:25:43 -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 11303 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2002 22:25:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zwingli.cygnus.com) (208.245.165.35) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Apr 2002 22:25:41 -0000 Received: by zwingli.cygnus.com (Postfix, from userid 442) id 370245EA11; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:18:22 -0500 (EST) To: Martin Baulig 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: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:25:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20020415102306.A15938@nevyn.them.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00278.txt.bz2 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.