DWARF2

[Show-Chung Chu]

Hi,

I am Show and I am working on a project to do the source level debugger.
I found some problem, maybe one of the export in there can help me out.
Thanks in advance!
OK, let me start to explain/show my problem in below:
   my gcc compiler version is 3.0.4, thread model is vxworks, target is
   powerpc-wrs-vxworks.
        The executable is attached below.
         (See attached file: ECELL.XB)
   I dumped the ECELL.XB by using the "READELF" tool, and I saw some of the
        const char array variables were represented differently. The output
of READELF is
        attached below.
        (See attached file: ECELL.readelf)
        The variables are declared in following attached file.
         (See attached file: cell_hl.c)
         Please read the ECELL.readelf at line no. 15105, that is the
variable "cfmrdoplonghelp"
         I think this the problem start happen.

         I thought the global variables should have a "DW_AT_location"
attribute to point the initial value,
         if it has one.

         All the variables in cell_hl.c are declared same way, but some
variables has the DW_AT_location
         to point where the value is, and some don't. For the  variables do
not DW_AT_location attribute
         how do they find the initial value?

Best Regards,
Show

ECELL.XB
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ECELL.readelf
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cell_hl.c
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