From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>,
Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>,
gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Variables in blocks of registers
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 02:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vt2n0lc239z.fsf@zenia.red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E3C3200.8070803@redhat.com>
Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> writes:
> >> dwarf2 makes it possible to scatter a value across both memory and
> >> registers. It's been proposed that the `struct value' be augmented
> >> with something like `struct location' that knows how to find any
> >> sub component of a value.
> > However, right now GCC doesn't generate this. Probably because it
> > would kill us.
>
> I'm not so sure. In the past, GCC hasn't waited for GDB so I don't
> think that would be the reason now.
I thought it had. A lot of the C++ stuff, for example;
DW_AT_MIPS_linkage_name; etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-04 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-01 14:48 Mark Kettenis
2003-02-01 15:48 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-01 17:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-01 20:45 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-02 16:13 ` Mark Kettenis
2003-02-02 5:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-02 16:52 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-02 16:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-04 2:31 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2003-02-04 4:07 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-02-02 15:33 ` Daniel Berlin
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