how to examine data with compiler optimization option set?

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:

 Robert> Paul Koning wrote:
 >> Is the problem inadequate debug information (i.e., the values are
 >> there, but there isn't debug data that points to the correct
 >> registers or stack slots) -- or is the problem that the values you
 >> want to see are dead by the time you get to them and the registers
 >> holding them have been reused by then?  Or something in between,
 >> i.e., the values are technically dead, but the registers have NOT
 >> yet been reused so the debug information can (and should) still
 >> show where they are.

 Robert> Well on entry to a function, (if you breakpoint on entry),
 Robert> the parameters cannot have been overwritten yet I would
 Robert> think!

Agreed.

I haven't run into trouble there (on MIPS that is), provided the
breakpoint is set after the function prologue.

	   paul