[Dwarf-discuss] DW_AT_program_entry_point

[Nettleton, Brian]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dwarf-discuss-bounces at lists.freestandards.org 
> [mailto:dwarf-discuss-bounces at lists.freestandards.org] On 
> Behalf Of Chris Quenelle
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:52 PM
> To: Jim Blandy
> Cc: DWARF-DISCUSS at freestandards.org
> Subject: [Dwarf-discuss] DW_AT_program_entry_point
> 
[snip]
> 
> I believe it is common practice when scanning the index
> lists to read the attributes of the DIE's that are
> indexed, and so an attribute of the subprogram die
> would be found and remembered at that time.
> 

I'm not sure about common practice or not but our Eclipse based debugger
doesn't do this.  We don't do much scanning at all and take a much more
lazy design approach (i.e. we prefer to collect information when it's
asked for).  So we much prefer "global" entries which are easy to find
for such program-wide information.

-Brian Nettleton
Wind River Systems