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"Preprocess" dwarf info?
- From: Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese at indel dot ch>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:24:59 +0100
- Subject: "Preprocess" dwarf info?
Hi
I'm now trying out stabs and dwarf debug info. With stabs all gdb symbols
get filled with data like type (LOC_STATIC, LOC_REGISTER etc) and
values (SYMBOL_VALUE, SYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS). If the symbol
gets evaluated only few target accesses are needed (registers, memory)
for the final value.
With dwarf this info is not stored expressively anymore if a symbol
is of type LOC_COMPUTED or LOC_COMPUTED_ARG. Instead gdb will
evaluate the dwarf debug "code" to return the value every time. I know
that there may be symbol "locations" that are not representable with
just 1 or 2 values. But still values such as register numbers or offsets
will always be the same.
So is there a way to somehow "preprocess" the dwarf info to get out
the same info gdb stores when using the stabs info?
Thanks
bye Fabi