Lifetime of local variables

[Daniel Berlin]

On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 16:19, Martin Baulig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was recently working a bit on debugging support for C# (using Mono)
> and I need a way to tell GDB about the lifetime of local variables. In
> C#, the JIT engine may decide to store two different variables at the
> same stack offset if they aren't used throughout the whole function.
> 
> Now I was wondering how to do this - DWARF 2 already has a
> `DW_AT_begin_scope' but unfortunately no `DW_AT_end_scope' - can we
> add this or something similar as a GNU extension ?

No need.
Just use DWARF2 location lists to describe where the variables are.
--Dan