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Re: Previous discussions about recording accurate code ranges in psymtabs?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:58:10 -0500
- Subject: Re: Previous discussions about recording accurate code ranges in psymtabs?
- References: <20031119183904.GE1067@gnat.com>
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:39:04AM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I was looking at the current code and trying to figure out how to
> modify GDB to record accurate code ranges in its psymtabs instead
> of the textlow/texthigh pair. It looks like it's going to be a major
> change, so I'm trying to find a path that would allow for a transition
> rather than a gigantic patch.
>
> Daniel mentioned that this has been discussed before. Any pointer to
> these discussions? I found some discussions, but they seemed to make
> a decision to move the opposite way: "Remove live range support"...
Jim Blandy posted a proposed interface for describing the ranges, but I
can't find the subject now. And live ranges are something completely
different :) More like .debug_loc location lists, really.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer