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Re: Replicated Dwarf [was Re: location lists]
- To: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Replicated Dwarf [was Re: location lists]
- From: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:38:29 -0800
- CC: todd dot allen at attglobal dot net, dwarf2 <dwarf2 at corp dot sgi dot com>
- References: <200103211836.f2LIasJ02597@toad.ccur.com> <u93dc67wvw.fsf@casey.cambridge.redhat.com>
- Reply-To: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
Jason Merrill wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com> writes:
>
> > An AT_declaration is used for non-defining declarations of a
> > variable. The current specification prohibits location lists
> > for these declarations, for reasons which are not clear.
> > A reasonable interpretation for a location list for a non-
> > defining declaration would be that this list represents
> > a qualification of the variable for the specified scope,
> > e.g., to indicate that it is in a register.
>
> Makes sense.
>
> Of course, for this to be valid, we would need to change the spec to remove
> this restriction.
Yes, I'll prepare a proposal to that effect.
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