On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:29:27PM +0200, Jerome Guitton wrote: > > A Dwarf interpretation question: > > We have a problem to make GCC-compiled code interact with the HP > native debugger, and it looks like it is caused by the way the > attribute DW_AT_frame_base is interpreted. Apparently, when a frame > pointer can be found in a register, the value generated by GCC for the > DW_AT_frame_base of the corresponding subroutine is a register name > (i.e. DW_OP_reg<some_number>). Is it really allowed by the dwarf 2 > standard? I would tend to think that it is not.
You may want to join the dwarf-discuss list, where this exact same conversation is taking place - probably about the exact same interaction. There have been voices on both sides, but I believe there's a narrow majority towards allowing the current behavior. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
