I'm new and wanting to help!

Joel Dice dicej@mailsnare.net
Thu Aug 3 16:21:00 GMT 2006


On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Joel Dice writes:
> > On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > Would it be possible to use debug information to determine the stack
> > layout, similar to how DWARF is used for unwinding?
>
> Yes, I think so.  But gcc might determine, for example, that one
> object was at an offset from another and never save a pointer to the
> second object at all.  It would be very hard to stop gcc doing this.

Interesting.  Would you mind providing an example of code that would 
trigger this behavior?

  - Joel



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