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Re: [PATCH] Add support for tracking/evaluating dwarf2 location expressions

To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for tracking/evaluating dwarf2 location expressions
From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at redhat dot com>
Date: 30 Mar 2001 21:44:28 -0500
Cc: David Taylor <taylor at cygnus dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
References: <200103302149.QAA25007@texas.cygnus.com><m27l16sww2.fsf@dynamic-addr-83-177.resnet.rochester.edu><3AC5134C.53658E7B@cygnus.com>

Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:

> > No. DWARF2 is the only symbol format i know of which has support for
> > something as expressive as location expressions/lists.
> 
> It is often refered to as live range splitting.  I've seen an
> implementation using stabs.
> 
> 	Andrew
No, it's not *just* live range splitting.
I know about the live range splitting extensions to stabs.
I've also reimplemented live range splitting the new register
allocator i've been working on for gcc (on the gcc
new-regalloc-branch).

--Dan

References:
- Re: [PATCH] Add support for tracking/evaluating dwarf2 location expressions
  - From: David Taylor
- Re: [PATCH] Add support for tracking/evaluating dwarf2 location expressions
  - From: Daniel Berlin
- Re: [PATCH] Add support for tracking/evaluating dwarf2 location expressions
  - From: Andrew Cagney

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