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Subject: Re: RFC: implement DW_OP_GNU_implicit_pointer
From: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 14:16 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> This patch implements DW_OP_GNU_implicit_pointer.  This is a new GNU
> extension to DWARF that lets debuginfo refer to a synthetic pointer that
> points to content which itself is computed via some DWARF expressions.
> 
> If you are on dwarf-discuss, the description is in the archives.  Since
> the archives are closed, I won't link to them.  AFAIK there's no truly
> public description of this feature.

There is http://dwarfstd.org/ShowIssue.php?issue=100831.1
Although I don't know if that is a permanent URL.