Re: I'm new and wanting to help!

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Joel Dice writes:
 > 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?

I know of none; I think it's possible.  On the other hand, this might
well break the present scheme as well.

Andrew.