Re: GDB can not perform DW_FORM_ref_addr.

[Jim Blandy]

"Gvozdeva, Svetlana" <address@hidden> writes:
> I would like to ask you does GDB (GNU gdb 5.0rh-5 Red Hat Linux 7.1) support
> the possibility of reference from one compile unit to different compile
> unit?
> I have tried to use for it type of reference DW_FORM_ref_addr. I have read
> in DWARF document (Revision:2.1 Draft 6 (May 15, 2001))
> that DW_FORM_ref_addr provides this possibility. Is it correct?

Unfortunately, GDB doesn't support Dwarf 2.1 yet.  We'd love to get a
patch for that, of course.

Daniel Berlin has taken a shot at it; I felt the code had some fatal
problems, but Daniel didn't agree with me, so the patch died.  The
conversation is archived; see the thread with the subject "[WIP] New
dwarf2 reader - updated 07-02-2001", on
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2001-07/threads.html.