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From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: Michael Bauer <mvbauer@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question regarding exporting data type information during compilation
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mcrfx4rddc3.fsf@dhcp-172-17-9-151.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AF2460ED-BEA5-4F7F-AC45-77A7119B5D0E@gmail.com> (Michael Bauer's message of "Thu\, 18 Feb 2010 21\:30\:35 -0800")

Michael Bauer <mvbauer@gmail.com> writes:

> Another thought that I had, if the compiler is not capable of
> outputting this information, then perhaps there is some debug
> information file that I could write a script to parse.  I'm thinking
> that debuggers somehow know the symbol name, address, and type so it
> must be output into some sort of debugging file.  If anyone has any
> suggestions I would be much appreciative.

You can use readelf --debug-dump to dump all sorts of information
about the debugging information.

The compiler won't dump it for you, unless you count looking at the
assembler output when using -S -dA.

Ian

      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-23 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-19  6:34 Michael Bauer
2010-02-23 18:24 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]

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