Re: [DWARF2] CFA in variable location expression

"Momchil Velikov" <velco@fadata.bg>
10 Aug 2002 02:03:38 -0400

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From: "Momchil Velikov" <velco@fadata.bg>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 10 Aug 2002 02:03:38 -0400
Organization: http://groups.google.com/
References: 02-08-011
Keywords: debug, linker
Posted-Date: 10 Aug 2002 02:03:38 EDT

"Fred RISS" <frederic.riss@libertysurf.fr> wrote
> I'm looking for a way for a compiler to build a DWARF information that
> indicates a data storage located at a constant offset from the current
> CFA. I don't see such a feature in the standard.


.debug_frame section does not serve as a variable
location information.


> It would be very convenient
> to say instead "Arg1 is at offset x from the current CFA".


See DT_AT_frame_base attribute and the DW_OP_fbreg expressions.
Typically, a function will have in DW_AT_frame_base a single
DW_OP_reg<n> location expression, which would denote the frame pointer
register (or stack pointer, if the frame pointer has been eliminated)
and the DW_OP_fbreg would be exactly the offset from the CFA.


~velco

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