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Tracing infrastructures

Tracing infrastructures

Posted Sep 21, 2006 14:07 UTC (Thu) by ajax (guest, #7251)
In reply to: Tracing infrastructures by dlang
Parent article: Tracing infrastructures

Global variables, yes. Local variables tend to move back and forth between registers and memory so it is hard, at any point in the code, to determine where a local variable resides at that point.


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Tracing infrastructures

Posted Sep 22, 2006 10:12 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Describing that is DWARF2's job, of course. GCC's generation of DWARF2 info is not perfect, but it's good enough most of the time.

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