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Re: about class LOC_COMPUTED_ARG


Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> LOC_BASEREG_ARG was inadequate.  LOC_COMPUTED_ARG is a more powerful
> mechanism, based on DWARF 2 location expressions.  Take a look at
> http://www.eagercon.com/ if you want to find a copy of the
> specification.
> 
> As I said in an earlier message, we don't have tracepoint support for
> LOC_COMPUTED or LOC_COMPUTED_ARG - yet.

As a workaround until that's done, you might try compiling with
-gstabs+.  Only the Dwarf 2 reader generates LOC_COMPUTED and
LOC_COMPUTED_ARG; the stabs reader will generate LOC_BASEREG_ARG and
stuff like that, which ax-gdb.c knows how to handle.


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