Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] DWARF and online-compiled programs (Simon Brand)

2016-06-10 Thread Ron Brender
The original proposal extends DW_AT_location in a way that seems not really in the spirit and intent of that attribute. Two alternatives come to mind: 1) Invent a new pseudo-device to use in the name string of a standard DW_AT_name attribute. For the name "inmemory:\\0x", the debugger wou

Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] DWARF and online-compiled programs (Simon Brand)

2016-06-10 Thread Simon Brand
Yes, although having the compiler create the file is reasonable in many cases, remote debugging of programs compiled on a device (which is a strong use-case for us) is more problematic, as the debugger would then need to download the generated source from the device and place it in the specifie