On 18 Nov 2013, at 20:06, Tobias Burnus wrote: > Bishop, John E wrote: >> ---[ sketch of DWARF for file 2 ]--- >> >> DW_TAG_subprogram 'read_nml' >> DW_TAG_imported_declaration '/nml' >> DW_AT_import DW_FORM_ref_addr [ somehow a reference to $1 ] > > Well, that's probably the problem: The "somehow". If the files are generated > independently, the "reference to $1" is not available. At least that's how I > understand it. (My DWARF knowledge is rather weak.)
At least on ELF and PECOFF platforms it's perfectly possible: you just insert a reference to a global symbol declared in the DWARF section of another object file. Our compiler doesn't use this particular tag, but at least for e.g. DW_TAG_typedef it works fine with gdb. Jonas _______________________________________________ Dwarf-Discuss mailing list Dwarf-Discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org http://lists.dwarfstd.org/listinfo.cgi/dwarf-discuss-dwarfstd.org
