[Dwarf-Discuss] how to find local variable stored in register

[Michael Eager]

Neeraj kushwaha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Continuing on this..
> 
> How GDB finds the value of variable which are stored in register for
> each function stack frame?

I'm not sure what you are asking.  If the debugger is stopped within
a function, the current target register contains the variable. DWARF
CFI provides information about where registers are stored in a call
frame.

> As GDB uses dwarf debug info internally and is capable of finding them.

As you've seen, the DWARF location list specifies where each
variable is allocated.

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