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Re: interface to partial support for DW_OP_piece in dwarf2expr.[ch]

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at gnat dot com>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at jive dot nl>, drow at false dot org, cagney at gnu dot org,gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:27:34 -0700
Subject: Re: interface to partial support for DW_OP_piece in dwarf2expr.[ch]
References: <vt2fz743d9h.fsf@zenia.home> <4111145F.7000504@gnu.org> <vt2wu0ejy1q.fsf@zenia.home> <200408050952.i759qXFK010181@juw15.nfra.nl> <vt2llgtd5h6.fsf@zenia.home>

> Again, I don't see any need for GDB to be broken until the larger
> project is complete.  GDB is broken for targets today that could use
> this reduction method.

I must say I am pretty convinced by Jim's argument. Once we have a fully
functional op_piece mechanism in place, removing the temporary hack
should have no effect at all. I would have been hesitant to go that
route too, except that Jim said it's not much work at all.

-- 
Joel

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