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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
To: ankit thukral <ankit_plug@yahoo.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: about class LOC_COMPUTED_ARG
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vt2d6dgl2q9.fsf@zenia.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031001141310.GC3720@nevyn.them.org>


Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> LOC_BASEREG_ARG was inadequate.  LOC_COMPUTED_ARG is a more powerful
> mechanism, based on DWARF 2 location expressions.  Take a look at
> http://www.eagercon.com/ if you want to find a copy of the
> specification.
> 
> As I said in an earlier message, we don't have tracepoint support for
> LOC_COMPUTED or LOC_COMPUTED_ARG - yet.

As a workaround until that's done, you might try compiling with
-gstabs+.  Only the Dwarf 2 reader generates LOC_COMPUTED and
LOC_COMPUTED_ARG; the stabs reader will generate LOC_BASEREG_ARG and
stuff like that, which ax-gdb.c knows how to handle.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-02  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-01  6:38 Breakpoints in ctor and gcc 3.x Cedric.Pillonel
2003-10-01  6:57 ` Jim Blandy
2003-10-01 10:35   ` about class LOC_COMPUTED_ARG ankit thukral
2003-10-01 14:49     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-02  3:52       ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2003-10-01 14:48 ` Breakpoints in ctor and gcc 3.x Daniel Jacobowitz

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