[Dwarf-Discuss] Any real products that do...

[John DelSignore]

FWIW, TotalView, doesn't use the column information, and in my experience, most of the compilers we support don't bother emitting accurate column information.

Cheers, John D.


Relph, Richard wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
>     I?m getting push back from my compiler team on the need for accurate
> column information in the DWARF. We?ve proceeded pretty far afield from
> the original problem, but an interesting question has arisen.
> 
>     Are there any existing DWARF-based tool chains (compiler and
> debugger) that use column information to do, say, highlight the
> fragments of a for statement as execution advances? Or are there other
> interesting uses of accurate column information out there in debuggers?
> In particular, multiple column entries in the same file/line?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard
>