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Re: location lists revisited
- To: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
- Subject: Re: location lists revisited
- From: Jim Dehnert <dehnert at transmeta dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:53:14 -0800
- CC: Ron 603-884-2088 <brender at gemgrp dot zko dot dec dot com>, DWARF2 at corp dot sgi dot com
- References: <01032114564613@gemgrp.zko.dec.com> <3AB91BD7.ED54C07A@eagercon.com>
- Reply-To: Jim Dehnert <dehnert at transmeta dot com>
Michael Eager wrote:
>
> Ron 603-884-2088 wrote:
>
> The second definition for "global" declares that it's lifetime is
> limited to source2.c. As far as I can tell, these are not the
> same variables, since they have distinct, non-overlapping lifetimes.
> But this one has the AT_declaration tag, saying that there is
> another definition for this variable, presumably at some enclosing
> scope. If I were to look for one, I'd find that the only likely
> candidate has a non-overlapping lifetime. This appears to be a flaw.
You appear to be confusing "scope" and "lifetime" in this paragraph
(and throughout the message). Should we read it as meaning "scope"
for both?
Jim
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