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Re: [patch rfc] Per-frame frame-base

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:51:13PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:37:22PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>

>>The implementation is very much modeled on the frame-unwind code. Debug >>readers are expected to register their own high level frame-base handler. 

>
>
>So what will the process for getting a dwarf2-debug-info frame
>registered look like?


The current interface is identical to frame-unwind.


>How will we figure out that this function has
>dwarf2 debug info?  It's not trivial... we don't have that information
>around any more on a per-PC basis.


Ask the frame's function's symbol or block.


Symbols don't currently have this information, nor do blocks.

Well, at least the partial symtab does, sort of implicit via read_symtab. Shame that location_funcs stuff wasn't a symbol wide virtual function table.

Andrew


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