RE: Hi all, just an onfo about huw to use gcc tree

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 03 March 2007 20:15, Fabio Giovagnini wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'd like to develop a tool able to do the following things:
> 1) to load all the .h and .c/.cpp files;
> 2) to analyze allo the data struct / unions and classes;
> 3) to give me for each data member of a struct or union and for each data
> member of a class, the offset in bytes related to the base addess of a
> generic istance of the struct/union and class.
> 
> In this way I could easily calculate the real address of each data member of
> each global declared struct / union and classes, and I clould easily read
> usign a simple communication protocol the content of a memory location of an
> embedded system only knowing the map file and the offset of each member of
> each global variable.

  Sounds like what you really want is a debugger... GDB does things like that.
The information you want is all emitted by the compiler as debug info in your
object files when you use the -g flag.  You haven't given details about the
task you're trying to achieve but scripting gdb is probably going to be the
way to go.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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